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An Analysis of Patterns of Public Engagement in China's Community Micro-rehabilitation Projects: A Case Study of Guangzhou (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, W., Cheshmehzangi, A., Yu, J., Mangi, E., Heath, T., & Zhang, Q. (2023). An Analysis of Patterns of Public Engagement in China's Community Micro-rehabilitation Projects: A Case Study of Guangzhou. World Development Sustainability, 3, Article 100108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100108

With the development of inventory planning and the contradiction between land supply and demand, urban renewal development has been gradually replacing reconstruction in China's community redevelopment projects. Such projects need multiple stakeholde... Read More about An Analysis of Patterns of Public Engagement in China's Community Micro-rehabilitation Projects: A Case Study of Guangzhou.

Directing reused industrial heritage to public taste: the case of 1933 Old Millfun, Shanghai (2023)
Journal Article
Zheng, X., Guo, S., & Heath, T. (2023). Directing reused industrial heritage to public taste: the case of 1933 Old Millfun, Shanghai. Sustainability, 15(18), Article 13728. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813728

Industrial heritage carries the task of not only preserving and inheriting historical culture, but also solving the homogenization of the historical area. The culture cannot be passed on without public participation; people are not only creators but... Read More about Directing reused industrial heritage to public taste: the case of 1933 Old Millfun, Shanghai.

The Spatial Transformation of the Villages around Chang’an Cultural Heritage Site Based on Actor Network Theory (2023)
Journal Article
Ji, J., & Heath, T. (2023). The Spatial Transformation of the Villages around Chang’an Cultural Heritage Site Based on Actor Network Theory. Sustainability, 15(14), Article 10846. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151410846

The villages around a Cultural Heritage Site (CHS), despite being influenced by long-term restrictive conservation policies for protecting their heritage’s integrity, are often excluded from heritage recognition. They do, however, have opportunities... Read More about The Spatial Transformation of the Villages around Chang’an Cultural Heritage Site Based on Actor Network Theory.

Exploring Immersive Co-Design: Comparing Human Interaction in Real and Virtual Elevated Urban Spaces in London (2023)
Journal Article
Ehab, A., & Heath, T. (2023). Exploring Immersive Co-Design: Comparing Human Interaction in Real and Virtual Elevated Urban Spaces in London. Sustainability, 15(12), Article 9184. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129184

Virtual reality (VR) technology has the potential to revolutionize public engagement in the design of urban projects, leading to more sustainable and inclusive environments. This research scrutinizes this potential through a study of elevated urban s... Read More about Exploring Immersive Co-Design: Comparing Human Interaction in Real and Virtual Elevated Urban Spaces in London.

Enhancing Public Engagement in Architectural Design: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Virtual Reality Approaches in Building Information Modeling and Gamification Techniques (2023)
Journal Article
Ehab, A., Burnett, G., & Heath, T. (2023). Enhancing Public Engagement in Architectural Design: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Virtual Reality Approaches in Building Information Modeling and Gamification Techniques. Buildings, 13(5), Article 1262. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051262

Purpose: This paper investigates the potential of virtual reality (VR) technologies—specifically, building information modeling (BIM) (“Autodesk Revit”) and game engines (“Unreal Engine”)—to enhance public involvement in the design and execution of a... Read More about Enhancing Public Engagement in Architectural Design: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Virtual Reality Approaches in Building Information Modeling and Gamification Techniques.

Limitations of institutional dimension in existing sustainability assessment tools: From the perspective of territory (2023)
Journal Article
Chen, W., Cheshmehzangi, A., Mangi, E., Heath, T., & Yu, J. (2023). Limitations of institutional dimension in existing sustainability assessment tools: From the perspective of territory. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 5, Article 100217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100217

Cities face considerable fundamental sustainability challenges, and scholars have developed many sustainability assessment tools (SATs) to assess and address these problems. As an important pillar of the tools, the institutional dimension, though add... Read More about Limitations of institutional dimension in existing sustainability assessment tools: From the perspective of territory.

From Maslow to Architectural Spaces: The Assessment of Reusing Old Industrial Buildings (2022)
Journal Article
Zheng, X., Heath, T., & Guo, S. (2022). From Maslow to Architectural Spaces: The Assessment of Reusing Old Industrial Buildings. Buildings, 12(11), Article 2033. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12112033

In many cases, the purpose of reusing old industrial buildings is to serve the public. Converting a building that had a particular function and is unfamiliar to the public to a civic building is a great challenge. Significantly, the public’s curiosit... Read More about From Maslow to Architectural Spaces: The Assessment of Reusing Old Industrial Buildings.

Research on the Design of Community Museums Based on the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method (2022)
Journal Article
Guo, S., Zheng, X., & Heath, T. (2022). Research on the Design of Community Museums Based on the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method. Sustainability, 14(17), Article 10802. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710802

The new museum movement of the twentieth century has driven the development of the form and function of museums around the world. Museums began to be actively open to the public, and some new concepts of museums, such as eco-museums and community mus... Read More about Research on the Design of Community Museums Based on the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method.

An Analysis of Residents’ Social Profiles Influencing Their Participation in Community Micro-Regeneration Projects in China: A Case Study of Yongtai Community, Guangzhou (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, W., Cheshmehzangi, A., Mangi, E., Heath, T., Ye, C., & Wang, L. (2022). An Analysis of Residents’ Social Profiles Influencing Their Participation in Community Micro-Regeneration Projects in China: A Case Study of Yongtai Community, Guangzhou. Land, 11(6), Article 790. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060790

Urban regeneration has become one of the most effective ways to develop urban areas that have declined. Compared with other types of urban regeneration, community micro-regeneration is characterised by scattered stakeholders. Existing studies on publ... Read More about An Analysis of Residents’ Social Profiles Influencing Their Participation in Community Micro-Regeneration Projects in China: A Case Study of Yongtai Community, Guangzhou.

Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies (2022)
Journal Article
Chen, W., Cheshmehzangi, A., Mangi, E., & Heath, T. (2022). Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies. Sustainability, 14(10), Article 6341. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14106341

China’s new-type urbanisation, as a national strategy, is one of the reasons why the leap in development has been made in the last decade. Existing studies mainly focus on the status and outcomes of china’s new-type urbanisation while stressing not e... Read More about Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies.

Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London (2021)
Journal Article
Torky, E., & Heath, T. (2021). Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London. Archnet-IJAR, 15(3), 589-604. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-12-2020-0294

Purpose: Street vendors create a vital urban street and a significant and important part of our urban areas are streets, they cater to our leisure, social and functional needs. There are many debates concerning street vendors; on one hand, there are... Read More about Perception of street vendors and their effect on urban settings in Portobello Road, London.

Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities (2021)
Journal Article
Wu, X., Kou, Z., Oldfield, P., Heath, T., & Borsi, K. (2021). Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities. Buildings, 11(6), Article 252. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11060252

Informal learning spaces play a significant role in enriching student experiences in learning environments. Such spaces are becoming more common, resulting in a change to the spatial configuration of built environments in higher education. However, p... Read More about Informal Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Student Preferences and Activities.

Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou (2021)
Journal Article
Cheng, X., & Heath, T. (2021). Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, 32(2),

Traditional towns and villages in China have experienced profound formal transformation in recent years as a result of national political policies promoting rural development. By analyzing how this new production of space reflects efforts to achieve... Read More about Production of Space in Traditional Towns and Villages against the Backdrop of “Chinese Characteristics”: A Study of Rural Form Transformation in Huizhou.

Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach (2021)
Journal Article
Ma, Y., Deng, W., Xie, J., Heath, T., Xiang, Y., & Hong, Y. (2022). Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach. Building Simulation, 15(1), 17-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-021-0779-6

Building prototyping has regularly been used in building performance analyses with statistically feasible models. The novelty of this research involves a new hybrid approach combining stratified sampling and k-means clustering to establish building g... Read More about Generating prototypical residential building geometry models using a new hybrid approach.

Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand (2021)
Journal Article
Phetsuriya, N., & Heath, T. (2021). Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Social Sciences, 10(3), Article 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10030101

Distinctiveness is a fundamental part of defining place identity. This paper aims to define the identity of place through the distinctiveness of the urban heritage of Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand. Chiang Mai Old City has unprecedented levels of dive... Read More about Defining the Distinctiveness of Urban Heritage Identity: Chiang Mai Old City, Thailand.

Spatial openness and student activities in an atrium: A parametric evaluation of a social informal learning environment (2020)
Journal Article
Wu, X., Oldfield, P., & Heath, T. (2020). Spatial openness and student activities in an atrium: A parametric evaluation of a social informal learning environment. Building and Environment, 182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.107141

The use of atria for students' informal learning activities is becoming a common architectural design strategy in contemporary higher education buildings, especially in dense urban settings. However, while researchers have focused on the relationship... Read More about Spatial openness and student activities in an atrium: A parametric evaluation of a social informal learning environment.

Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: an empirical study (2020)
Journal Article
Ahmadpoor, N., Smith, A. D., & Heath, T. (2021). Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: an empirical study. Journal of Urban Design, 26(3), 296-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2020.1777847

This paper examines the role of environmental legibility in an era where digital mobile maps guide many everyday journeys. This paper presents data from a real-world navigational experiment, where participants followed urban routes either by using di... Read More about Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: an empirical study.

Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms (2019)
Book Chapter
Shao, Y., Heath, T., & Zhu, Y. (2019). Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms. In I. R. Management Association (Ed.), Urban Agriculture and Food Systems: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (484-510). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8063-8.ch025

The concept of vertical farming is nearly twenty years old, however, there are only a few experimental prototypes despite its many advantages compared to conventional agriculture. Significantly, financial uncertainty has been identified as the larges... Read More about Developing an Economic Estimation System for Vertical Farms.

Urban entrepeneurialism and sustainable development: a comparative analysis of Chinese eco-developments (2019)
Journal Article
Xie, L., Cheshmehzangi, A., Tan-Mullins, M., Flynn, A., & Heath, T. (2020). Urban entrepeneurialism and sustainable development: a comparative analysis of Chinese eco-developments. Journal of Urban Technology, 27(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2019.1680940

Focusing upon the strategic entrepreneurial planning of local government, this paper presents a critical analysis of the variability of Chinese urban sustainable development projects. In recent years, state entrepreneurialism and notions of (urban) s... Read More about Urban entrepeneurialism and sustainable development: a comparative analysis of Chinese eco-developments.

Examining three roles of urban “portals” in their relationship with “places” using social media photographs (2019)
Journal Article
Qian, X., & Heath, T. (2019). Examining three roles of urban “portals” in their relationship with “places” using social media photographs. Cities, 90, 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.011

Portals are the transition spaces between paths and places in an urban environment such as the entrance to a square from a connecting street. This paper aims to explore different forms of portals by considering their relationship with places. In doin... Read More about Examining three roles of urban “portals” in their relationship with “places” using social media photographs.

Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users (2019)
Book Chapter
Ahmadpoor, N., & Heath, T. (2019). Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users. In A. Karandinou (Ed.), Data architecture and the experience of place: new approaches to data and senses. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The experiments implemented in this research demonstrate that people who navigate an urban environment using GPS have poorer landmark knowledge than those who do not use GPS. Furthermore, discriminant analysis reveals certain attributes of urban land... Read More about Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users.

Gardens in the sky: Emotional experiences in the communal spaces at height in the Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore (2017)
Journal Article
Hadi, Y., Heath, T., & Oldfield, P. (2018). Gardens in the sky: Emotional experiences in the communal spaces at height in the Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore. Emotion, Space and Society, 28, 104-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.09.001

A boom in high-rise construction and vertical living has resulted in an increase in privately and publicly accessible communal spaces at height within tall buildings. Asia is leading the way in these developments, with one of the most notable project... Read More about Gardens in the sky: Emotional experiences in the communal spaces at height in the Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore.

Using quantitative analysis to assess the appropriateness of infill buildings in historic settings (2017)
Journal Article
Hu, Y., Heath, T., Tang, Y., & Zhang, Q. (2017). Using quantitative analysis to assess the appropriateness of infill buildings in historic settings. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 34(2),

Over the past 40 years or so, and more recently in developing countries, increasing attention has been paid to the preservation of historic settings; however, with continued development and urbanization, a solution is needed for the problem of how to... Read More about Using quantitative analysis to assess the appropriateness of infill buildings in historic settings.

Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Wu, X., Law, S., Heath, T., & Borsi, K. (2017). Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes. In Proceedings, 11th International Space Syntax Symposium XI SSS, Lisbon, 3-7 July 2017 (33.1-33.9)

Notable gains have been made in understanding the factors that influence student experiences in higher education, particularly in the area of spatial configuration. Indeed, studies have found that spatial configuration affects spatial behaviour and m... Read More about Spatial configuration shapes student social and informal learning activities in educational complexes.

Navigation by GPS-based systems: engagement with/disengagement from the place and the respective role of urban design (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Ahmadpoor, N., & Heath, T. (2017). Navigation by GPS-based systems: engagement with/disengagement from the place and the respective role of urban design. In A. Karandinou (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference ‘Between Data and Senses: Architecture, Neuroscience and the Digital World (25-26)

The physical environment has started to be taken into consideration in mobile human– computer interaction more and more in order to bring humans and computers closer together. These studies focus on merging the aspects of actual situations in real wo... Read More about Navigation by GPS-based systems: engagement with/disengagement from the place and the respective role of urban design.

China’s diversifying demand for housing for the elderly (2016)
Journal Article
Jia, M., & Heath, T. (2016). China’s diversifying demand for housing for the elderly. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 9(2), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-04-2015-0018

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the trends among the elderly population in China about residential preferences and policy applications, as the elderly is a rapidly expanding demographic group that has increasing and diversifying inclinations for... Read More about China’s diversifying demand for housing for the elderly.

Conservation and revitalization of historic streets in China: Pingjiang Street, Suzhou (2016)
Journal Article
Xie, J., & Heath, T. (2017). Conservation and revitalization of historic streets in China: Pingjiang Street, Suzhou. Journal of Urban Design, 22(4), 455-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2016.1167587

The late twentieth and early twenty-first century has witnessed the unfortunate plight of demolition or irreparable damage for thousands of historic streets across China as a result of urbanization and redevelopment. A core of committed practitioners... Read More about Conservation and revitalization of historic streets in China: Pingjiang Street, Suzhou.

Developing an economic estimation system for vertical farms (2016)
Journal Article
Shao, Y., Heath, T., & Zhu, Y. (2016). Developing an economic estimation system for vertical farms. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.4018/IJAEIS.2016040102

The concept of vertical farming is nearly twenty years old, however, there are only a few experimental prototypes despite its many advantages compared to conventional agriculture. Significantly, financial uncertainty has been identified as the larges... Read More about Developing an economic estimation system for vertical farms.

The image of the city in the information era: analyzing the effect of digital mobile devices on city imaging process (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ahmadpoormobarakeh, N., & Heath, T. (2015). The image of the city in the information era: analyzing the effect of digital mobile devices on city imaging process. In I. Theona, & D. Charitos (Eds.), Hybrid City 2015: Data to the People: Proceedings of the 3rd International Biennial Conference, 185-188

This paper presents the early stages of a PhD research which attempts to analyze the effect of using digital mobile devices on the process of city imaging in The Information Era. Within this process, some guidelines are suggested in order to facilita... Read More about The image of the city in the information era: analyzing the effect of digital mobile devices on city imaging process.

In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax (2015)
Journal Article
Can, I., & Heath, T. (2015). In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 31(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-015-9442-9

This research tackles the intermediate spaces between buildings and the street, by examining the definition and importance of spatial configuration in relation to urban morphology and social relations. It also analyses how the organisation of in-betw... Read More about In-between spaces and social interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using space syntax.