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Article
Outdoor Thermal Comfort for Active Ageing in Urban Open Spaces: Reviewing the Concepts and Parameters
Outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) has considerable impacts on the health and life of different groups of people. Older people are one of the most vulnerable groups to climate-related diseases. Heat-related deaths ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Thermal Comfort Modelling Framework for Urban Neighbourhoods: Tempo-Spatial Coupling of Building Energy and CFD Models
More accurate tools are required to replicate urban climates to achieve healthy and comfortable urban environments. To this end, this study implements a novel high-resolution simulation framework to improve th...
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Chapter
The Hot Climate of the Middle East
This book chapter includes a brief overview of the climatic and socioeconomic characteristics of Middles East. It is then scrutinizing the urban heat island (UHI) of the region in response to the recent develo...
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Article
How Do Older Women Perceive their Safety in Iranian Urban Outdoor Environments?
According to the elders’ health as the main priority of ageing in place, recent research focuses on a better understanding of the elders’ needs of perceived safety especially the older women as the vulnerable ...
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Article
Open AccessDevelopment and validation of elder-friendly urban spaces questionnaire (EFUSQ)
Considering the lack of specific measurement tools to study elders’ perceptions in outdoor spaces, the study objectives were to derive and validate a questionnaire that assesses the essential features of elder...
