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dc.contributor.authorMohamed, Mady
dc.contributor.authorElessawi, Widad
dc.contributor.authorEl-Shafie, Mervat
dc.contributor.authorAlwaer, Husam
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-17T12:15:16Z
dc.date.available2023-02-17T12:15:16Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-02
dc.identifier.isbnOnline ISBN 978-3-031-15460-7, Print ISBN 978-3-031-15459-1en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-15460-7_16en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14131/447
dc.description.abstractThe neighborhood has become the focus of attraction of urban planners, designers and architects. Over the last two decades, the field of study of the neighborhood and its relationship with health has witnessed an explosion of interest. Several researchers investigated neighborhood problems and its impacts on well-being. Different urban problems vary in mental and physical health impacts. A lot of longitudinal and cross-sectional research linked the characteristic of neighborhood whether physical or social to the health condition of the community. Furthermore, heart disease, skin disorder, cancer diabetes, depression and drug use are some of the health problems that an individual might face while living in an insufficient neighborhood particularly in harsh climate conditions. In desert climate, thermal low performance can lead to urban problems such as the well-known phenomenon “Urban Heat Island (UHI)”. The later can lead to several illness syndromes for residents. Reviewing the literature revealed a gap in the knowledge on the detailed relationship between the urban design elements and the sick health syndrome. This paper discusses the negative impact of the neighborhood design elements and its interconnection with illness syndromes. Similar to the Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), the paper introduces a new term to define the relationship between the urban design elements and the sick health syndromes which is “Sick Neighborhood Syndrome” (SNS).en_US
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishingen_US
dc.subjectNeighborhooden_US
dc.subjectHealthen_US
dc.subjectMental healthen_US
dc.subjectPhysical healthen_US
dc.subjectUrban heat islanden_US
dc.subjectNeighborhood problemsen_US
dc.subjectNeighborhood designen_US
dc.titleSick Neighborhood Syndromes in Hot Dry Climateen_US
dc.source.booktitleCities of the Future: Challenges and Opportunitiesen_US
dc.source.volume1;
dc.source.pages229-258en_US
dc.contributor.researcherExternal Collaborationen_US
dc.contributor.labUrben Design Laben_US
dc.subject.KSASMARTen_US
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dc.contributor.departmentMaster of Science in Urban Designen_US
dc.contributor.pgstudent1en_US
dc.contributor.firstauthorElessawi, Widad


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