throughout human evolution history, beauty has always been one of the necessary integral components of human need. as greer (2010) said, “one of the prehistoric human’s responses to the animal life around them was to etch and paint these animals on the walls of their caves. turning them into art and rendering them beautiful was a natural response - a way to help make sense of a hostile and conf...

The urban development process displays regressive tacit-dominant knowledge areas and their tacit level would impede their movements during multi-level knowledge transfers among stakeholders. The accuracy of a knowledge may be distorted when recipient stakeholders fail to understand a specific knowledge for its purpose. Earlier studies by the authors had highlighted complex yet dynamic environme...

In this position paper we describe our efforts toward the use of large-scale personal health tracking in developing a better understanding of the built environment and its impact on the health behavior of those dwelling in the space. As part of a larger mobile sensing study, we collected a wide array of health-related data from university students using phone sensors and Ecological Momentary As...

built environment does not “simply appear overnight, like a movie-set springing up on a vacant lot, but has to be produced”.thus, the first point in dealing with such an environment is considered to be the tracing of time in the evaluation of the city and keeping in mind that the whole is more than its parts. the last point becomes naturally understood when the process of city building is p...

one of the major aspects of quality of life is place-attachment which is affected by human-nature interactions. looking at such a critical issue in human settlements requires the study of the relationship between architecture and nature. it is a critical issue in the contemporary literature of built environment and is discussed in specific frameworks such as phenomenology and environmental psyc...

The report investigates several methods of managing a student's educational activity. discipline "Practicum problem solving in informatics" has been chosen for students their third year study, future informatics teachers, order to realize pedagogical conditions computer-oriented management students' major aim behind building the courseware was move away from direct and toward co-management, sub...

Age-friendly built environments have been promoted by the World Health Organisation (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) under Global Cities (AFC) movement in which three domains are related to environment. These are: housing, transportation, outdoor spaces and public buildings. The aim is foster active ageing optimising opportunities for older adults maximise their independent living ability participate...