Smart cities and urban governance: The urbanAPI project: Bologna case study
(2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (107)
Soil microarthropod community dynamics in extensive green roofs (2013)
Journal Article
Green roofs are of increasing interest to ecologists, engineers and architects, as cities grow and aim to become more sustainable. They could be exploited to improve urban biodiversity and ecosystem services, yet almost nothing is known about them fr... Read More about Soil microarthropod community dynamics in extensive green roofs.
Gabriel Scally - This place is killing me! (2013)
Digital Artefact
Gabriel Scally examines how the places we live in shape our health - and how changes to the fabric of urban spaces can improve our lives. Recorded at TEDMEDL...
Cities and flooding: Lessons in resilience from case studies of integrated urban flood risk management (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flooding can cause disruption and devastation in cities, with massive damage to livelihoods, property and urban infrastructure as recently experienced in New York City, Jakarta, Bangkok, Accra, Mississippi and Queensland. For cities in developing nat... Read More about Cities and flooding: Lessons in resilience from case studies of integrated urban flood risk management.
Engaging a wider public health workforce for the future: A public health practitioner in residence approach (2013)
Journal Article
This paper outlines and assesses a project that sought to use a studio residency (a public health practitioner in residence) as a vehicle to introduce public health issues and concepts into the curricula of a studio cohort of fifth and sixth year arc... Read More about Engaging a wider public health workforce for the future: A public health practitioner in residence approach.
A joint fatigue-creep deterioration model for masonry with acoustic emission based damage assessment (2013)
Journal Article
The paper investigates the long-term fatigue and creep deterioration processes in historical brick masonry. Based on two independent laboratory test series, the relationship between stress level and life expectancy was considered for fatigue and cree... Read More about A joint fatigue-creep deterioration model for masonry with acoustic emission based damage assessment.
Religion as capital: It may take a miracle (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The contribution of "sustainable" new developments to sustainable lifestyles: an evaluation of schemes in the UK (interim research findings) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Developing a decision support framework for low carbon housing design and delivery in the UK (2013)
Thesis
There is an increasing drive to achieve sustainability agenda, as well as climate change challenges. The construction industry is facing increasing pressure to address environmental performance earlier in the design process. For UK buildings, design... Read More about Developing a decision support framework for low carbon housing design and delivery in the UK.
Crafting the collaborative studio (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The teaching of architecture, structural engineering and planning in higher education has, for the last sixty years or so, been strongly governed by the requirements of professional bodies who have set relatively strict guidelines on content and appr... Read More about Crafting the collaborative studio.