Stamatina Th. Rassia, Panos M. Pardalos, editors ; foreword by Nick V. Baker
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xviii, 336 p.) :
Other Physical Details
ill. (some col.)
SERIES
Series Title
Springer optimization and its applications,
Volume Designation
v. 56
ISSN of Series
1931-6828 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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Sustainability and neuroscience / John P. Eberhard -- Behavioral science perspectives on designing the environment to promote child health / McKane E. Sharff, Elissa Gerfen, and Kenneth P. Tercyak -- Form follows function : bridging neuroscience and architecture / Eve A. Edelstein and Eduardo Macagno -- Active transport, the built environment, and human health / Takemi Sugiyama, Maike Neuhaus, and Neville Owen -- Environmental control and the creation of well-being / Shweta Manchanda and Koen Steemers -- Design of healthy, comfortable, and energy-efficient buildings / Claude-Alain Roulet et al. -- Environmental and behavioral factors affecting residential air conditioning use in Athens and London / Lia Chatzidiakou et al. -- The influence of weather conditions on pedestrians' behavior and motion, with respect to queues in outdoor urban areas / Ioannis Tzouvadakis and Athanassios Stamos -- The health of informal settlements : illness and the internal thermal conditions of informal housing / Matthew French and John Gardner -- Live urbanism : towards SENSEable cities and beyond / Bernd Resch, Rex Britter, and Carlo Ratti -- Computer-aided analysis of pedestrians' motion behavior using video frames / Ioannis Tzouvadakis, Athanassios Stamos, and Dimitra Vassilaki -- The sustainable schedule of hospital spaces : investigating the "duffle coat" theory / William Fawcett -- Philosophy about the quality of our indoor climate / Leo de Ruijssher -- Sustainable environmental design in architecture : impacts on health, the variety of problems, and problems of the variety / Mojtaba Samimi, Mohammad Yousef Nili, and Sana Seifi -- Forming the building blocks of a sustainable environment : how dialogue and public diplomacy yield innovative solutions / William Frnech and Salome Meyer -- Advantages of the verticalo farm / Dickinson Despommier -- Restoration-preservation in an urban environment and seismic stability of the statues of Athena and Apollo along the forefront of the Academy of Athens / Antonios Kounadis and Nikolaos Makris -- A health damage pattern due to street-level pollution in the Central Paris area estimated with a turbulence-resolving model / Igor Esau -- Les écoquartiers en France / Pierre Lefèvre