A more sustainable heat supply of the built environment is needed to reach the policy-goal of a climate neutral economy in The Netherlands in 2050. This paper presents a method of a spatial energy-model to calculate the economic profitable CO2-reduction potential of a sustainable heat supply in...

Das Land Berlin hat sich verpflichtet, bis 2045 Klimaneutralität zu erreichen. Die Wärmeerzeugung ist der größte Treiber der Energienachfrage und verursacht fast die Hälfte der CO2-Emissionen in Berlin. Derzeit beruht die Wärmeversorgung überwiegend auf Erdgas, sowohl in der dezentralen...

Die Zusammenarbeit von Stadtplanung und Public Health ist grundlegend für eine gesundheitsfördernde Stadtentwicklung und zur Bewältigung von ungerechten gesundheitlichen Ungleichheiten. Die Epidemiologie als eine Kerndisziplin von Public Health befasst sich mit der Häufigkeit von...

Gesundheitsbelastungen infolge von Bewegungsmangel stehen im Zusammenhang mit der Stadtentwicklung der letzten Jahrzehnte und gehen einher mit inaktiven Lebensweisen. Gehen ist die umweltfreundlichste Fortbewegungsart, es ist sozialverträglich, d. h. unabhängig von sozialer Stellung, Alter...

The concept of Smart Healthy Age-Friendly Environments (SHAFE) emphasises the comprehensive person-centred experience as essential to promoting living environments. SHAFE takes an interdisciplinary approach, conceptualising complete and multidisciplinary solutions for an inclusive society. From...

Cities have started to restructure themselves into 'smart cities' to address the challenges of the 21st Century-such as climate change, sustainable development, and digital disruption. One of the major obstacles to success for a smart city is to tackle the mobility and accessibility issues via...

Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into 'place-making' and 'locality-making' in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales...

This study explores potential development and paradigm shifts in two main sectors of construction and the built environment due to COVID-19. These development changes are discussed based on evidence from previous pandemics, current and expected impacts on both industries, and how they are likely...

This book explores a wide range of methodological approaches to examining various forms of workplace physical environments. It focuses on pressing questions regarding the relationship between the spatial component of the workplace, including its progressive hybridisation with other physical and...

The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and...