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Exploring policy & practice across scales: cities, neighbourhoods, buildings. Independent, not-for-profit OA peer-review transdisciplinary journal
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2025 PhD Video Challenge: Calling all PhD candidates! . You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.
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You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.
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RT @lorchBRI: Calling all built environment PhD students: .Enter the "2025 Video Challenge". Create a 2-minute video to tell the world ab….
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New commentary! Will NDC 3.0 Drive a Buildings Breakthrough? . Why policymakers should create mitigation roadmaps for construction and real estate.
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Understanding Urban Climate Interactions . RESEARCH PATHWAY: personal reflections on a career in research . Geographer and climatologist Gerald Mills (University College Dublin) reflects on a long research career investigating urban climate.
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New commentary! Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab . How can a self-organised initiative in an informal settlement foster community engagement and confront social issues? .
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How can a self-organised initiative in an informal settlement foster community engagement and confront social issues?
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New commentary! Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges . Thomas Lützkendorf explains how the research community has helped to change the climate change policy landscape for the construction and real estate sectors.
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RT @lorchBRI: New CFP:."Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making". Special issue of @BuildingsCities .How should we respond to the increasi….
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News! Buildings & Cities is pleased to announce that in 2024 our peer reviewed articles were viewed and downloaded 523,612 times from the journal's website. We hope you will all continue to support us and enjoy reading our 2025 volume
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📢 Exciting News! 📢.From now on, all updates from Buildings & Cities will be shared on Bluesky!.Join us and stay connected: See you there! 💙.
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New Commentary! Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonisation . How building research can harness AI for mass decarbonisation . Jenn McArthur reflects on how the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming building decarbonisation research.
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New Commentary! Reframing Sustainable Construction . Why a new approach to sustainable development is needed. Alice Moncaster (University of the West of England) reflects on the lack of progress in sustainable development over several decades.
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Why a new approach to sustainable development is needed.
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Buildings & Cities gratefully acknowledges and thanks our reviewers. High-quality peer review is essential to the success of this journal and we greatly appreciate the dedication and efforts of all those who have contributed to this.
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Calls for Papers！The Complexity of Disaster Reconstruction. Guest Editor: Paolo Tombesi (EPFL) . Deadline for abstracts: 24 MARCH 2025 (noon GMT) .
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Commentary! A World in Emergency and Emergence. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to continuously change.
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Challenges ahead: how the recent past is shaping the research agenda
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Commentary! T-Shaped Interdisciplinarity: A Model for Applied Research? . Marilyne Andersen discusses the paradox of interdisciplinarity, highlighting it as a necessary research approach that is seldom valued in academia.
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Challenges ahead: how the conduct of research needs to change
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Book Reviews! Healthy Urbanism. Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places. Bomin Kim reviews this excellent book that provides a comprehensive and actionable guide to create equitable, inclusive and sustainable urban environments.
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By Helen Pineo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, ISBN: 978-981-16-9646-6
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Book Reviews! Architecture and Spatial Culture. Kerstin Sailer reviews this book that cleverly illustrates the social implications of architectural decisions by interweaving scientific arguments and the author’s personal experiences with spatial culture.
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Commentary! Cities-Scale Research to Address Climate Change. Gerald Mills considers the big challenges for cities amid global climate change and discusses the need for an interdisciplinary approach among urban climate sciences to overcome obstacles.
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Understanding the interactions between urban form, outdoor and indoor spaces, and local climate requIres interdisciplinary interaction
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Special issue! Health Inequalities and Indoor Environments. There is compelling evidence that aspects of indoor environments can adversely affect health, but the role of indoor environments in health inequalities is less understood.
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New paper! Operationalising energy sufficiency for low-carbon built environments in urbanising India . How does one define the concept of energy sufficiency for the growth of cities and operationalise it in a developing context?
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