Here are some interesting links and articles passing our radar:
- Using hospital admissions data as a measure to understand health impact, and economic value, of meeting housing quality standards (through retrofits): Article discussion and study here
- How can policy innovation help decarbonize the building stock in Europe? (Policy Innovation for Building Renovation)
- Just one example of a “mainstream pulse” on “creepy surveillance technologies“. What are the implications of strong monitoring and surveillance?
- Thermokiosk: A qualitative study suggests “valuable roles for interaction design in supporting the everyday expression of subjective comfort experience, and in providing a medium for negotiating and developing the knowledge, competences, meanings, and politics required for effective collective comfort practices… In establishing thermal comfort as an ‘object of concern’, these findings point to interesting potential for sustainability applications: first in engaging occupants and management with alternative approaches to thermal comfort where the energy required is more closely linked to comfort experience; and secondly, in providing a platform for the establishment of new, sustainable practices.”
- Taking it beyond the building: Gehl People’s toolkit for measuring public life
- Urban air quality: Teenage Psychotic Experiences More Common in Areas with High Air Pollution
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