The present study uses a qualitative approach with the aim to identify built environmental factors influencing short walking distances for transportation among adults (18-65 years), with special attention to micro-scale ...
Germanà, Maria Luisa(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-05-11)
[EN] Maintenance concerns most of the artifacts, referring simultaneously to the socio-cultural, technical and managerial spheres. Contemporary scenarios impose an overall rethinking, where key-topics such as tradition, ...
Perales Momparler, Carmen Sara(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-12-21)
[EN] Under the well-known slogan 'think global, act local', cities in the 21st century face the enor-mous challenge of catalyzing, intensifying and accelerating sustainable urban transformations. Without losing a holistic ...
Urban drainage patterns are altered by increasing urbanization and rapid conveyance and discharge of runoff, leading to increased flood risk, diminish of aquifer recharge and degradation of receiving waterways. These effects ...
[EN] The impact of the physical environment on individuals arise as a growing body of research in population wellbeing. Yet, most of studies in this area do not focus on elderly even though they are particularly susceptible ...
Cellucci, Cristiana(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-06-30)
[EN] The paper deals with the issue of the regeneration of the existing building heritage by framing the problems that characterize the relationships between users-buildings-neighbourhoods in a circular vision. Circular ...
[EN] In this study, we use a qualitative methodology to identify and compare factors of the built environment influencing the decision to walk for short trips in two different Spanish cities: Valencia and Granada. Three ...
Currà, Edoardo; D'Amico, Alessandro; Russo, Martina; Angelosanti, Marco; Cui, Cassia De Lian; Quagliarini, Enrico(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-04-04)
[EN] The relationships between the Built Environment (BE) and SUdden-Onset Disasters (SUOD) are increasingly the focus of hazard mitigation investigation. Specifically, in the Historic Built Environment (HBE), defined as ...
Kylili, Angeliki; Fokaides, Paris A.; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo(Elsevier, 2016-04)
[EN] The reduction of the energy consumption and the improvement of the indoor climate issues when
renovating can achieve added benefits including reduced outlay on government subsidies, and improved
health due to less ...
Korançe, Françeska(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-06-30)
[EN] The built environment is important not only for its users and owners, but also for the community and society as a hole, and yet, construction is one of the most energy consuming, destructive, and moreover material ...
Higuera-Trujillo, Juan Luis; Llinares Millán, María Del Carmen; Macagno, Eduardo(MDPI AG, 2021-03)
[EN] Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental situations, using neuroscientific techniques ...
Machado, Antonio(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20)
[EN] This paper seeks to identify a pattern of air turbulence that reflects the effect of buildings on air turbulence characteristics measured in open spaces in Western São Paulo State, Brazil. Atmospheric turbulence was ...
Llorens-Gámez, Mar; Higuera-Trujillo, Juan Luis; Sentieri Omarrementeria, Carla; Llinares Millán, María Del Carmen(Higher Education Press, 2022-06)
[EN] Enriched environments in animal models have demonstrated that exposure to an optimal stimulus improves behavior, cognition, and genomics. However, the evidence base for the neurophysiological influence of human ...
[EN] Sustainable drainage systems are an alternative and holistic approach to conventional urban stormwater management that use and enhance natural processes to mimic pre-development hydrology, adding a number of ...
Gallarati, Mario(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20)
[EN] Today’s towns, as often represented on the web and media, seem almost the same, flattened out on the American model. But European towns still preserve their individuality: if we look at aerial views, for instance, we ...
Mollo, Luigi; Agliata, Rosa; Palmero Iglesias, Luís Manuel; Vigliotti, Marco(Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC, 2020-09)
[EN] A typological GIS is a system designed to store, analyse, manage and visualize geo-referred data about the built environment. It allows
interactive queries to explore spatial relationships between buildings, improving ...
[EN] Our built environment is nowadays considered as a dynamic complex, stretching and transforming across space and time, with the interaction of human, social and economic dimensions. It needs to be safeguarded ...