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Make good use of big data: A home for everyone
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic should teach us some lessons at health, environmental and human levels toward more fairness, human cohesion and environmental sustainability. At a health level, the pandemic raises the importance of housing for everyone particularly vulnerable and homeless people to pro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102903 |
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description | The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic should teach us some lessons at health, environmental and human levels toward more fairness, human cohesion and environmental sustainability. At a health level, the pandemic raises the importance of housing for everyone particularly vulnerable and homeless people to protect them from the disease and against other similar airborne pandemics. Here, I propose to make good use of big data along with 3D construction printers to construct houses and solve some major and pressing housing needs worldwide. Big data can be used to determine how many people do need accommodation and 3D construction printers to build houses accordingly and swiftly. The combination of such facilities- big data and 3D printers- can help solve global housing crises more efficiently than traditional and unguided construction plans, particularly under environmental and major health crises where health and housing are tightly interrelated. |
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spelling | pubmed-74446302020-08-26 Make good use of big data: A home for everyone Moustafa, Khaled Cities Article The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic should teach us some lessons at health, environmental and human levels toward more fairness, human cohesion and environmental sustainability. At a health level, the pandemic raises the importance of housing for everyone particularly vulnerable and homeless people to protect them from the disease and against other similar airborne pandemics. Here, I propose to make good use of big data along with 3D construction printers to construct houses and solve some major and pressing housing needs worldwide. Big data can be used to determine how many people do need accommodation and 3D construction printers to build houses accordingly and swiftly. The combination of such facilities- big data and 3D printers- can help solve global housing crises more efficiently than traditional and unguided construction plans, particularly under environmental and major health crises where health and housing are tightly interrelated. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-12 2020-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7444630/ /pubmed/32863523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102903 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Moustafa, Khaled Make good use of big data: A home for everyone |
title | Make good use of big data: A home for everyone |
title_full | Make good use of big data: A home for everyone |
title_fullStr | Make good use of big data: A home for everyone |
title_full_unstemmed | Make good use of big data: A home for everyone |
title_short | Make good use of big data: A home for everyone |
title_sort | make good use of big data: a home for everyone |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863523 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102903 |
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