This book examines sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. It covers a wide array of topics, including indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort and modeling of multi-scale design dynamics.

1. Sustainability and Neuroscience (J.P. Eberhard).- 2. Behavioral Science Perspectives on Designing the Environment to Promote Child Health (M.E. Sharff, E. Gerfen, K.P. Tercyak).- 3. Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture (E.A. Edelstein, E. Macagno).- 4. Active Transport, Building Environment and Human Health (T. Sugiyama, M. Neuhaus, N. Owen).- 5. Environmental Control and the Creation of Wellbeing (S. Manchanda, K. Steemers).- 6 Design of Healthy, Comfortable Energy Efficient Buildings (C.A. Roulet, P. Bluysssen, B. Muller, E. de Oliveira Fernandes).- 7. Environmental and Behavioural Factors Affecting Residential Air Conditioning use in Athens and London (L. Chatzidiakou, A. Pathan, A. Summerfield, D. Mumovic).- 8. The Influence of Weather Conditions on Pedestrians’ Behaviour and Motion, with Respect to Queues in Outdoor Urban Areas (I. Tzouvadakis, A. Stamos).- 9. The Health of Informal Settlements Illness and Thermal Conditions (M. French, J. Gardner).-10. Live Urbanism, Towards Sensible Cities and Beyond (B. Resch, R. Britter, C. Ratti).- 11. Computer aided Analysis of Pedestrians’ Motion Behaviour Using Video Frames Live Urbanism (I. Tzouvadakis, A. Stamos, D. Vassilaki).- 12. Sustainable schedule of Hospitals Duffle Coat theory (W. Fawcett).- 13. Philosophy About the Quality of our Indoor Climate (L. de Ruijsscher).- 14. Impacts on Health: Variety of Problems and Problems of Variety (M. Samimi, M.Y. Nili, S. Seifi).- 15. Forming Building Blocks Diplomacy Yield Innovative Solutions (W.French and S. Meyer).- 16. Advantages of the Vertical Farm (D. Despommier).- 17. Restoration-Preservation in an Urban Environment and Seismic Stability of the Statues of Athena and Apollo on the Forefront of the Academy of Athens (A. Kounadis, N.Makris).- 18. A Health Damage Pattern Due to Street-Level Pollution in the Central Paris Area Estimated with the Turbulence-Resolving Model (I. Esau).- 19. Les ecoquartiers en France (P. Lefevre).-

The chapters in this book, written by international experts from different fields of architecture and engineering, are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health. The invited contributions focus on new ideas, concepts and research work with multidisciplinary applications. Special features of this volume include indoor and urban design impacts on human comfort, modeling and assessment of multi-scale design dynamics, as well as new results from diverse areas of research spanning from architecture and engineering to neuroscience and public health. Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture is intended for graduate students and researchers of architecture, engineering, neuroscience, public health, social and computational sciences, architectural modeling and related fields.

Contributed articles are devoted to recent interdisciplinary works in a variety of subjects related to sustainable architecture and engineering, environmental modeling, behavioral science and public health Can be used as a supplemental text in a course focusing on Environmental Design in Architecture, Sustainable Building Design, Civil Engineering, Urban Development, Public Health, or Epidemiology Topics presented will appeal to a wide readership within the scientific community Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras