Sensing the Built Environment: Measurements, Correlations, and Implications
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 9311
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: environmental vulnerability; urban analytics; behavioral economics; mobility; spatial optimization
Interests: urban environment and public health; application of GIS and big data
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The emergence of new data and the machine learning approach provide great opportunities to generate theoretical and empirical insights for built environment research. On the one hand, they promote high-quality measurements of the built environment, which are usually much more refined, comprehensive, and with high spatiotemporal resolutions of the data. On the other hand, the new data and methods advance a more systematic and in-depth understanding of the interaction between the built environment, psychological perception (e.g., safety, lively, beauty), and well-being (e.g., human emotion, physical health, mental health). Accordingly, it is hoped that the Special Issue on Sensing the Built Environment: Measurements, Correlations, and Implications, can advance an interdisciplinary dialogue between architecture, urban planning, social science, and computer science. The Special Issue not only invites manuscripts on literature reviews, but also theoretical, methodological, and empirical work. The topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
(1) Measuring the built environment with new data and sensing technologies (e.g., street view images, wearable device);
(2) Understanding the complex interactions between the built environment, psychological perception (e.g., safety, lively), and well-being (e.g., emotion);
(3) Implications for urban planning and policy intervention (e.g., pathways, optimization).
Dr. Chang Xia
Dr. Huagui Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- built environment
- human perception
- well-being
- measurements
- correlations
- implications
- interdisciplinary research
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