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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,772 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered our perception of spatial experience, presenting new challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. This study adopts a transition design perspective to explore innovative strategies for enhanci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,306 Views
18 Pages

12 August 2021

The potential relationship between external and internal spaces in the architectural environment of the post-pandemic era is emerging as an essential issue. Since the early 20th century, the issue of transparency inside and outside architecture has b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,343 Views
12 Pages

27 November 2023

The practicum is an essential activity for initial teacher training courses as it ensures the immersion in real contexts and sharing practice with experts. The early experiments on online practicums occurred thanks to the development of technologies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,400 Views
14 Pages

8 February 2021

The paper aims to reach insights into city branding in the Covid-19 context to discuss the projected brand propositions and their reliance oan sustainable brand attributes and values. This study explores the immediate response of overtouristified cit...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
858 Views
37 Pages

A Systematic Review of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Impacts and Mitigation: Health, Equity, and Policy

  • Zhenzhu Zheng,
  • Chng Saun Fong,
  • Nasrin Aghamohammadi and
  • Yoo Kee Law

12 January 2026

Urban heat islands pose intensifying threats to public health, equity, and urban livability as climate change amplifies temperature extremes. This systematic review synthesizes evidence from 33 primary studies (2021–2025) examining health impac...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,052 Views
12 Pages

Unconventional Tourist Mobility: A Geography-Oriented Theoretical Framework

  • Dallen J. Timothy,
  • Gábor Michalkó and
  • Anna Irimiás

26 May 2022

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism had permeated all spaces of experience, reaching nearly every country, region, community, and corner of the globe. In recent decades, the meanings, implications, and roles of tourism have also expanded signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,903 Views
22 Pages

10 October 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a distinctive impact on Hong Kong, especially given the city’s prior experience with the SARS outbreak. The resulting psychological distress has been exacerbated by Hong Kong’s extreme density and compactness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,799 Views
19 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of urban parks as green spaces in mitigating social isolation and supporting public mental health. Research in this area is limited due to the lack of large-scale datasets. Moreover, timely studies are indee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,146 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2022

Global tourism is posing challenges on the environmental and social sustainability of host communities, while the industry itself has proven to be vulnerable to threats such as a global pandemic. Proximity tourism was demonstrated to be a more sustai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,411 Views
22 Pages

30 May 2025

Research on the dynamic mechanisms driving the accumulation of anthropogenic marine debris (AMD) in highly dynamic environments, such as extensive sandy beaches, remains limited. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to map macro-marine litter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
7,751 Views
21 Pages

Integrating in situ Measurements and City Scale Modelling to Assess the COVID–19 Lockdown Effects on Emissions and Air Quality in Athens, Greece

  • Georgios Grivas,
  • Eleni Athanasopoulou,
  • Anastasia Kakouri,
  • Jennifer Bailey,
  • Eleni Liakakou,
  • Iasonas Stavroulas,
  • Panayiotis Kalkavouras,
  • Aikaterini Bougiatioti,
  • Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis and
  • Evangelos Gerasopoulos
  • + 2 authors

30 October 2020

The lockdown measures implemented worldwide to slow the spread of the COVID–19 pandemic have allowed for a unique real-world experiment, regarding the impacts of drastic emission cutbacks on urban air quality. In this study we assess the effects of a...