Editorial Board for section 'Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members

School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: seismic analysis; irregular buildings; seismic codes; performance-based design; floor flexibility; seismic intensity measures; seismic incident angle
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Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Interests: sustainable green architecture; lighting and daylighting in architecture; energy retrofitting of existing buildings; performance-based design; intelligent buildings; building envelope; zero energy buildings and communities; solar and daylight rights in urban design; design tools
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School of Architecture, Ariel University, P.O.Box 3, Ariel 44837, Israel
Interests: architectural design; urban design; design thinking; visual thinking; creativity and innovation; place attachment
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School of the Built Environment, Whiteknights, University of Reading, P.O. Box 219, Reading RG6 6AW, UK
Interests: health and wellbeing; design and management of intelligent buildings; sustainable liveable buildings; environmental sensory design; creating productive and creative workplaces
* Associate Editor
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School of Architecture, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
Interests: space syntax; spatial cognition; pedestrian movement; architecture; user experience
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Dr. Kathryn Davidson
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Urban Planning Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: urban planning; architecture; building; planning

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, Fisciano, Italy
Interests: economic and financial feasibility and quality assessment in redevelopment housing; urban and regional planning; appraisal of ordinary and extraordinary properties; compensation for expropriation; single and multi-dimensional evaluation procedures and techniques; risk analysis for projects in the civil sector; public-private partnership (PPP)
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II”, Piazzale Vincenzo Tecchio 80, 80125 Napoli, Italy
Interests: econometric models; mass appraisal; real estate market; risk management; urban and real estate economics; real estate investments; building management; economic valuation of real estate investment projects; environmental economics; transport economics; sustainability; knowledge management; corporate valuation
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Department of Heritage, Architecture, Urban Planning, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Via dell’Università, 25, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: evaluation of the economic; environmental and social sustainability of plans and projects; according to an integrated and multidisciplinary approach
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School of Applied Arts and Sustainable Design, Lighting Design Laboratory, Hellenic Open University, 26335 Patra, Greece
Interests: daylight; exterior lighting; lighting control; lighting design; lighting measurements; photosensors; road and tunnel lighting; sustainable lighting
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School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth, Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth PO1 2DJ, UK
Interests: interdisciplinary education; urban design, housing; representation; architecture practice and research through design
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Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Interests: systems-based approaches to climate change mitigation; climate adaptation; sustainable buildings and cities; urban systems; infrastructure systems; built environment; freight and logistics systems; disaster risk reduction and resilience
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Prof. Dr. Beijia Huang
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Department of Environment and Architecture, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
Interests: environmental assessment; environmental planning and management; industrial ecology; low carbon and sustainable development
Urban Resilience and Adaptation, Centre for Disaster Resilience, School of Science, Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, Manchester M5 4WT, UK
Interests: community resilience; adapting SMEs acommunity resilience; adapting SMEs against flooding; preparedness measures to improve urban resilience and adaptation
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Department of Architecture, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City, Taiwan
Interests: behavioral analysis in built environments; building design quality; AI and big data techniques in design decision making
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Former Director, School of Architecture, University of Nevada, College of Fine Arts 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Box 454018, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4018, USA
Interests: sustainable urban form; sustainable architecture and urbanism; compact city theory
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Division of Sustainable Buildings, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 23, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: indoor air quality (IAQ); air distribution; inverse design and control; data-driven/AI-based smart buildings
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School of Engineering, University of Basilicata, via dell'Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: real estate appraisal; property valuation; financial and economic analysis for investment projects; econometrics; decision sciences
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Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments (IVE), UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
Interests: sustainable construction; sustainable urbanisation; smart construction; smart cities
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Centre for Urban Design, Architecture and Sustainability, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Interests: smart and sustainable design for climate change; sustainability of rural development in China; comfort and energy use in buildings; energy efficient design and use of renewable energy in buildings/built environment; integrated planning and design strategies to promote and encourage sustainability
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Department of Project and Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av/Diagonal, 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: construction and building materials; smart, sustainable, circular and digitalised built environment; decision making
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Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Interests: architecture; artificial intelligence; biophilia; biophilic design; complexity; design; healing environments; patterns; resilience; sustainability; urbanism
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City Futures Research Centre, School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: sensing technologies; AI; machine learning; advanced GIS; BIM; digital twins; city analytics methods; digital construction; smart cities; smart construction
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School of Architecture,University of Florida, 625 NW 60th Street, Suite C - Gainesville, Florida 32607, USA
Interests: acoustics; architectural acoustics; classroom acoustics; soundscape design; urban design; architectural design; evidence-based design; performance hall design; sustainability; occupational noise; building performance
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Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University, P.O. Box 789, Albury, NSW 2640, Australia
Interests: conservation management; urban ecosystems; Pacific history; novel ecosystems; Indian diaspora; heritage and disasters; COVID-19; historic ecology; environmental history; intangible heritage; cultural heritage planning; heritage policy; adaptive reuse
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M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Building Construction Management, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-5703, USA
Interests: building/urban energy modeling, simulation, and visualization
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Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: building; CFD; codes; design; pressures; dispersion; loads; wind tunnel testing; wind environment; natural ventilation; urban

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The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PX, UK
Interests: sustainable buildings; sustainable and circular cities; architecture and wellbeing; behaviour and building performance
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