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Advances of Healthy Environment Design in Urban Development

This special issue belongs to the section “Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate“.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The built environment is closely related to human health. Currently, people's requirements for the quality of urban and architectural space environment are increasing. The relationship between built environment and human health has become an urgent problem to be solved.

In existing research, numerous achievements have been made regarding the impact of environmental pollution and physical quality on health physiological indicators. The impact of the environment on users' living habits and behavioral patterns also clearly determines people's physical and mental health.

This issue focuses on the concept of all-health, focusing on new theories, new technologies, new methods and innovative applications of various built environment and health indicator measurements and analyses, and focusing on the comprehensive promotion of the built environment in user health issues. Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Healthy buildings
  • Healthy community
  • Healing space
  • Urban active space
  • Healthy environments for particular populations (e.g., the elderly, children, and people with social anxiety)
  • Health-promoting behavior

Prof. Dr. Xia Zhang
Prof. Dr. Hui He
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • built environment
  • environment behavior
  • healthy building
  • healthy city
  • healing environment
  • environment phycology
  • health-promoting behavior
  • health-supporting environment

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Buildings - ISSN 2075-5309