Informing healthy building design with biophilic urbanism design principles: a review and synthesis of current knowledge and research

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Informing healthy building design with biophilic urbanism design principles: a review and synthesis of current knowledge and research

Links between human health and wellbeing, and contact with nature are well understood in the fields of health and psychology, and more recently are gaining attention in the built environment industry. In 1984, E.O. Wilson coined the term ‘biophilia’ to describe the tendency for humans to have an inn...

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Main Authors:	Reeve, Angela, Hargroves, Charlie, Desha, Cheryl, Newman, Peter
Other Authors:	Healthy Buildings 2012- 10th International Conference- Editiorial Board
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	Queensland University of Technology 2012
Subjects:	Ecology Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) Human performance Healthy homes and buildings Climate change Surveys Energy performance
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36422

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