Green space, clean air and cooler streets shape mental health of pregnant women in China
A 13-year Chinese cohort study of 216,442 pregnant women links composite residential environmental profiles, including PM2.5, heatwaves and green space, ...
Tag: urban planning
Walkability Is Not Automatically Sustainable, Researchers Warn
A new perspective argues that walkability's sustainability benefits are widely assumed but rarely quantified, and proposes a structured framework for ...
Zero-Energy Campus Framework Puts Spatial Planners at the Heart of Carbon Neutrality
Researchers propose treating the zero-energy campus as a meso-scale planning object that integrates spatial design, shared energy infrastructure, carbon assessment, ...
Urban Farms and Gentrification: New Protocol Maps the Evidence
A new systematic map protocol sets out a rigorous method for cataloguing the full range of academic evidence on how ...
Wi-Fi probes reveal what draws students across a Chinese campus
A maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning model trained on two weeks of anonymous Wi-Fi probe data at Southeast University's Wuxi ...
AI Tool Maps Climate Equity Plans Across US Cities
Researchers built a retrieval-augmented AI framework that analyzed 192 US climate equity and action plans and matched cities with similar ...
Carbon flow model tracks industrial park emissions with 94% accuracy
Researchers built a carbon flow model and accounting module for industrial parks that matched measured emissions at Shanghai's Caohejing Development ...
Shading, wind and vegetation shape pedestrian comfort as Quito densifies
Simulations of Quito's hypercenter show that vertical densification has mixed thermal effects on pedestrians, while climate-sensitive design with vegetation and ...
Perceptions of Walkability Shape Well-Being in Older Adults in India
A survey of 333 older adults in Udupi District, India, validates a structural model linking perceived safety, security, comfort, convenience, ...
Winter Field Study Maps Thermal Comfort Across Hangzhou’s Residential Neighborhood Types
A winter field study in Hangzhou found a neutral outdoor thermal comfort index of 19.2 degrees Celsius for residential neighborhoods, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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