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Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America (Supplementary materials)
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Students’ Static Activities in relation to Campus Quad Design and Layout: Exploring Gender-based Differences
(City Space Architecture, 2020-01-31)This study explores the relationships of campus quad design and layout with students’ static activities focusing on gender differences. Students’ static activities were observed at 8914 locations during 390 rounds of ... -
Using Design Interventions to Develop Communication Solutions for Integrated Pest Management
(Oxford University Press, 2020-07-13)Iowa State University’s (ISU) Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program partnered with the ISU College of Design (COD) to use Design Thinking and other practical design methodologies and theories to identify and develop ... -
The Plan Is The Program: Thomas Jefferson's Plan for the Rectilinear Survey Of 1784
(1996)This paper studies the plan for the rectilinear survey of 1784 for the Northwest Territory of the United States contained in the Land Ordinance of 1784 authored by Thomas Jefferson in association with Hugh Williamson and ... -
Problems in Reconstituting the Traditional Urban Values in Contemporary Cities and the Role of the Boundary
(International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), 1998)Critics would commonly agree that in many contemporary cities wasteful modes of consumption, encouraged and facilitated by fantastic developments in technology, have significantly eroded the values of the traditional urban ... -
On Psychosocial Constructs in Office Settings: A Review of the Empirical Literature
(2005)This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationships between psychosocial constructs and office settings. The constructs included in the review are face-to face communication and interaction, privacy, territoriality, ... -
Sedentary and Fleeting Activities and Their Spatial Correlates in Offices
(2006-05)In this study of the relationships between knowledge worker activities and office design, two sets of activities - generically termed as fleeting and sedentary activities - are considered. Fleeting activities include walking ... -
The Effects of Physical Design on Users’ Behavior and Perception in University Classrooms: A Pilot Study
(2009-05)Users’ behavior and perception were evaluated in two university classrooms—one had a rigid layout with fixed furniture, and the other had a flexible layout with movable and adjustable furniture. One instructor taught the ... -
Territory, politics of power, and physical spatial networks: The case of Baghdad, Iraq
(Elsevier, 2015-12)Despite our commonsense understanding of territory as a bounded region, some political aspects of territory can be better described as effects of physical spatial networks. To illustrate the point, we study territorial ... -
Space Syntax: A Network-based Configurational Approach for Urban Morphological studies
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-01)A methodological study was conducted to test the validity and reliability of the patient safety (PS) scale developed by Rashid (2007) for evaluating nurses' perception of adult intensive care unit (ICU) design features ... -
Perceptual Effects of Physical and Visual Accessibilities in Intensive Care Units: A Quasi-Experimental Study
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-04)This article reports the findings of a 2-phase quasi-experimental study looking at the perceptual effects of physical and visual accessibilities on clinical staff in intensive care units (ICUs). In a previous CCNQ article ... -
The evolving metropolis after three decades: A study of community, neighbourhood and street form at the urban edge
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018-02-12)In a highly cited paper, Southworth and Owens (1993) studied eight suburban areas in the San Francisco Bay area at the scales of community, neighbourhood and of street and house lot, and observed their changing morphological ... -
Students’ Static Activities in relation to Campus Quad Design and Layout: Exploring Gender-based Differences
(City Space Architecture, 2020-01-31)This study explores the relationships of campus quad design and layout with students’ static activities focusing on gender differences. Students’ static activities were observed at 8914 locations during 390 rounds of ... -
Urban morphology and Historic Urban Landscape management: The case of Kolkata, India
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge, 2020-01-28)The purpose of this chapter is twofold: to briefly describe the concepts, methods and measures of town plan analysis and space syntax; and to apply some of these concepts, methods and measures to the historic core of Kolkata ... -
Physical Activity and Nutrition Intervention for Middle Schoolers (Move More, Get More): Protocol for a Quasi-Experimental Study
(Nature Research, 2022-05-04)Background: Physical activity and nutrition behaviors are important to reducing the prevalence of childhood obesity. Previous research has identified school-based interventions as effective strategies to improve physical ... -
Classic Readings in Architecture
(WCB/McGraw Hill, 1999)Classic Readings in Architecture introduces students to the important literature of the field. It consists of journal articles and book chapters by authors who are recognized as major contributors to architectural history, ... -
Impact of Inpatient Unit Design Features on Overall Patient Experience and Perceived Room-Level Call Button Response
(MDPI, 2021-09-16)This study explores the relationship between inpatient unit design and patient experience and how spatial features and visibility impact patients’ perception of staff responsiveness. The first part of this study is a ... -
Physical and Visual Accessibilities in Intensive Care Units: A Comparative Study of Open-Plan and Racetrack Units
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2016-10)This study compared physical and visual accessibilities and their associations with staff perception and interaction behaviors in 2 intensive care units (ICUs) with open-plan and racetrack layouts. For the study, physical ... -
Islamic Architecture: An Architecture of the Ephemeral
(2020-03)Written as an introduction to the Architecture of the Muslim world, this paper discusses the underlying similarities of different regional architectural styles developed by Muslims over a vast geographical area during a ... -
Variations of PV Panel Performance Installed over a Vegetated Roof and a Conventional Black Roof
(MDPI, 2018-05-01)The total worldwide photovoltaic (PV) capacity has been growing from about 1 GW at the beginning of the twenty-first century to over 300 GW in 2016 and is expected to reach 740 GW by 2022. PV panel efficiency is reported ...
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