Buildings & Cities gratefully acknowledges and thanks our reviewers.
Buildings & Cities is most grateful to the many people in 2021 listed below who provided detailed, rigorous reviews of submitted manuscripts in 2021.
An enormous thank you to this diverse community of scholars who help to maintain the highest standards for both the journal and the wider community.
Dominic Aitken |
Newcastle University |
James Allan |
EMPA |
David Allinson |
Loughborough University |
Rafael Alonso Candau |
Atmos Lab |
Ben Amor |
Université de Sherbrooke |
Morgan Andersson |
Chalmers University |
Jay Arehart |
University of Colorado Boulder |
Monika Åšcibor |
University of Jamestown |
Dicle Aydin |
Necmettin Erbakan University |
Magdalena Baborska-Narożny |
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology |
George Baird |
Victoria University of Wellington |
Rajasekhar Balasubramanian |
National University of Singapore |
José Baldasano |
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya |
Ronita Bardhan |
University of Cambridge |
Jo Barnes |
University of the West of England |
Francoise Bartiaux |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
Lisa Bates |
Portland State University |
Martin Behnisch |
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban & Regional Development |
Hui Ben |
University of Cambridge |
Thomas Berker |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Spyros Bofylatos |
University of the Aegean |
Rolf Bohne |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Christina Bollo |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Tamara Bozovic |
Auckland University of Technology |
Andrea Brambilla |
Politecnico di Milano |
Arianna Brambilla |
The University of Sydney |
Alex Bremner |
University of Edinburgh |
Jess Britton |
University of Exeter |
Tor Broström |
Uppsala University |
Todd Brown |
The University of Texas at Austin |
Richard Bull |
Nottingham Trent University |
Jonathan Busch |
University of Leeds |
Jason Byrne |
University of Tasmania |
Marta Calzolari |
University of Parma |
Christhina Candido |
University of Sydney |
Jenni Cauvain |
University of Nottingham |
Jose Cedeno Laurent |
Harvard University |
Heather Chappells |
University of British Columbia |
Emma Cheatle |
University of Sheffield |
Jianli Chen |
University of Utah |
Robert Cohen |
Verco |
Beck Collins |
Birmingham City University |
Paddy Conaghan |
Hoare Lea |
Ian Cooper |
Eclipse Research |
Manuel Correia Guedes |
University of Lisbon |
Robert Cowley |
Kings College London |
Sarah Darby |
University of Oxford |
Ernst de Place Hansen |
Aalborg University |
Mandy de Wilde |
University of Amsterdam |
Manik Deepak-Gopinath |
Open University |
Sebastian Dembski |
University of Liverpool |
Tim Dixon |
University of Reading |
Timur Dogan |
Cornell University |
Silvia Domingo-Irigoyen |
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts |
Michael Donn |
Victoria University of Wellington |
John Duncan |
formerly at BRANZ |
Scott Duncan |
Auckland University of Technology |
Richard Dunning |
University of Liverpool |
Spencer Dutton |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Tina Fawcett |
University of Oxford |
Pamela Fennell |
University College London |
Paul Frijters |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
Julie Futcher |
Anglia Ruskin University |
Stephen Gage |
University of Reading |
Fernando Garrefa |
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia |
Stephanie Gauthier |
University of Southampton |
Aaron Gillich |
London South Bank University |
Julie Godefroy |
CIBSE |
Vanessa Gomes Silva |
University of Campinas |
Chris Gorse |
Leeds Beckett University |
Jack Goulding |
University of Wolverhampton |
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen |
Aalborg University |
Walter Grondzik |
Ball State University |
Karin Gruhler |
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban & Regional Development |
Rajat Gupta |
Oxford Brookes University |
Tom Hargreaves |
University of East Anglia |
Runa T. Hellwig |
Aalborg University |
Stephen Hill |
CO2 Futureplanners |
Alexander Hollberg |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Philippa Howden-Chapman |
University of Otago |
Endrit Hoxha |
Aalborg University |
Daniele Ietri |
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
Madhavi Indraganti |
Qatar University |
Nigel Isaacs |
Victoria University of Wellington |
Laure Itard |
Delft University of Technology |
Usha Iyer-Raniga |
RMIT University |
David Jacobs |
National Centre for Healthy Housing |
Patrick James |
University of Southampton |
Sue James |
Independent scholar |
Lubo Jankovic |
University of Hertfordshire |
David Jenkins |
Heriot-Watt University |
Salla Jokela |
Tampere University |
Janina Käyhkö |
University of Helsinki |
Tapio Kaasalainen |
Tampere University |
Michael Keall |
University of Otago |
Rosemary Kennedy |
Queensland University of Technology |
Niall Kerr |
University of Edinburgh |
Sophie-May Kerr |
University of New South Wales |
Rihab Khalid |
University of Cambridge |
Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir |
University of Isfahan |
Gavin Killip |
University of Oxford |
Jungsoo Kim |
University of Sydney |
Niklaus Kohler |
Karlsruhe Insititute of Technology |
Doris Kowaltowski |
University of Campinas |
Markus Laine |
Tampere University |
Patrick Lamson-Hall |
New York University |
Adrian Leaman |
Building Use Studies |
Brennan Less |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Mark Levine |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Jiayu Li |
Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore |
Dusan Licina |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
David Lorenz |
Lorenz Immobilien OHG |
Zhiwen Vincent Luo |
University of Reading |
Thomas Lützkendorf |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Cecil Madell |
University of Cape Town |
Monika Magdziak |
Bialystok University of Technology |
Jeetika Malik |
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
Peter Mallaburn |
University College London |
Tove Malmqvist |
School of Architecture and the Built Environment |
Anna Mavrogianni |
The Bartlett, University College London |
Jenn McArthur |
Ryerson University |
Alison Meadow |
University of Arizona |
Frits Meijer |
TU Delft |
Sakis Meir |
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Rich Mitchell |
University of Glasgow |
Kristina Mjörnell |
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden |
Harvey Molotch |
New York University |
Trivess Moore |
RMIT University |
Anastasia Mylona |
CIBSE Head of Research |
Robin Nicholson |
Cullinan Studio |
Fergus Nicol |
London Met University |
Marialena Nikolopoulou |
Kent University |
Prince Njoku |
University of Venda |
George Ofori |
London South Bank University |
Kathryn Oliver |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Yael Parag |
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya |
Tom Parkinson |
University of California Berkeley |
Robyn Pender |
Historic England |
Peter Phibbs |
University of Sydney |
Francesca Pilò |
Utrecht University |
Silvia Pina |
University of Campinas |
Gary Pivo |
University of Arizona |
Francesco Pomponi |
Edinburgh Napier University |
Sarah Price |
Enhabit |
Fabienne Reisen |
CSIRO |
Hom Rijal |
Tokyo City University |
Donghyun Rim |
Penn State University |
Carla Rodrigues |
University of Coimbra |
Ronald Rovers |
Independent scholar |
Ricardo Rupp |
Technical University of Denmark |
Ruth Saint |
Napier University |
Mikael Salonvaara |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Agnese Salvati |
Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
Isabel Santiago |
University of Cordoba |
Rosa Schiano-Phan |
Westminster University |
Stephan Schmidt |
Cornell University |
Robert Schmidt III |
Loughborough University |
Marcel Schweiker |
RWTH Aachen University |
Clive Shrubsole |
Public Health England |
Stefan Siedentop |
Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development |
Kate Simpson |
Carbon Leadership Forum |
José Siri |
Wellcome Trust |
Philip Steadman |
University College London |
Koen Steemers |
University of Cambridge |
Marie Stender |
Aalborg University |
Marc Stettler |
Imperial College London |
Fionn Stevenson |
University of Sheffield |
Aimee Stimpson |
Public Health England |
Yolande Strengers |
Monash University |
Lynne Sullivan |
LSA Studio |
Minna Sunikka-Blank |
University of Cambridge |
Will Swan |
University of Salford |
Phil Symonds |
University College London |
Despoina Teli |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Jacques Teller |
University of Liège |
Rachel Toms |
Sustrans |
Maria Triana |
Federal University of Santa Catarina |
Lucy Tusting |
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Chris Tweed |
Cardiff University |
Chris Twinn |
Twinn Sustainability Innovation |
Marcella Ucci |
University College London |
Erwin van der Krabben |
Radboud University |
Ira Verma |
Aalto University |
Vincent Viguié |
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech |
Rebekka Volk |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Faye Wade |
University of Edinburgh |
Andreas Wagner |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Michelle Wang |
Hoare Lea |
Peter Ward |
The University of Texas at Austin |
Pawel Wargocki |
Technical University Denmark |
Michael Waring |
Drexel University |
Georgia Warren-Myers |
The University of Melbourne |
Nicola Willand |
RMIT University |
Xiaoping XIE |
TU Dresden |
Wei Yang |
Tianjin University |
Rebekah Yore |
University College London |
Health inequalities and indoor environments: research challenges and priorities [editorial]
M Ucci & A Mavrogianni
Operationalising energy sufficiency for low-carbon built environments in urbanising India
A B Lall & G Sethi
Promoting practices of sufficiency: reprogramming resource-intensive material arrangements
T H Christensen, L K Aagaard, A K Juvik, C Samson & K Gram-Hanssen
Culture change in the UK construction industry: an anthropological perspective
I Tellam
Are people willing to share living space? Household preferences in Finland
E Ruokamo, E Kylkilahti, M Lettenmeier & A Toppinen
Towards urban LCA: examining densification alternatives for a residential neighbourhood
M Moisio, E Salmio, T Kaasalainen, S Huuhka, A Räsänen, J Lahdensivu, M Leppänen & P Kuula
A population-level framework to estimate unequal exposure to indoor heat and air pollution
R Cole, C H Simpson, L Ferguson, P Symonds, J Taylor, C Heaviside, P Murage, H L Macintyre, S Hajat, A Mavrogianni & M Davies
Finnish glazed balconies: residents’ experience, wellbeing and use
L Jegard, R Castaño-Rosa, S Kilpeläinen & S Pelsmakers
Modelling Nigerian residential dwellings: bottom-up approach and scenario analysis
C C Nwagwu, S Akin & E G Hertwich
Mapping municipal land policies: applications of flexible zoning for densification
V Götze, J-D Gerber & M Jehling
Energy sufficiency and recognition justice: a study of household consumption
A Guilbert
Linking housing, socio-demographic, environmental and mental health data at scale
P Symonds, C H Simpson, G Petrou, L Ferguson, A Mavrogianni & M Davies
Measuring health inequities due to housing characteristics
K Govertsen & M Kane
Provide or prevent? Exploring sufficiency imaginaries within Danish systems of provision
L K Aagaard & T H Christensen
Imagining sufficiency through collective changes as satisfiers
O Moynat & M Sahakian
US urban land-use reform: a strategy for energy sufficiency
Z M Subin, J Lombardi, R Muralidharan, J Korn, J Malik, T Pullen, M Wei & T Hong
Mapping supply chains for energy retrofit
F Wade & Y Han
Operationalising building-related energy sufficiency measures in SMEs
I Fouiteh, J D Cabrera Santelices, A Susini & M K Patel
Promoting neighbourhood sharing: infrastructures of convenience and community
A Huber, H Heinrichs & M Jaeger-Erben
New insights into thermal comfort sufficiency in dwellings
G van Moeseke, D de Grave, A Anciaux, J Sobczak & G Wallenborn
‘Rightsize’: a housing design game for spatial and energy sufficiency
P Graham, P Nourian, E Warwick & M Gath-Morad
Implementing housing policies for a sufficient lifestyle
M Bagheri, L Roth, L Siebke, C Rohde & H-J Linke
The jobs of climate adaptation
T Denham, L Rickards & O Ajulo
Structural barriers to sufficiency: the contribution of research on elites
M Koch, K Emilsson, J Lee & H Johansson
Life-cycle GHG emissions of standard houses in Thailand
B Viriyaroj, M Kuittinen & S H Gheewala
IAQ and environmental health literacy: lived experiences of vulnerable people
C Smith, A Drinkwater, M Modlich, D van der Horst & R Doherty
Living smaller: acceptance, effects and structural factors in the EU
M Lehner, J L Richter, H Kreinin, P Mamut, E Vadovics, J Henman, O Mont & D Fuchs
Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation [editorial]
V Castán-Broto, M Olazabal & G Ziervogel
Building energy use in COVID-19 lockdowns: did much change?
F Hollick, D Humphrey, T Oreszczyn, C Elwell & G Huebner
Evaluating past and future building operational emissions: improved method
S Huuhka, M Moisio & M Arnould
Normative future visioning: a critical pedagogy for transformative adaptation
T Comelli, M Pelling, M Hope, J Ensor, M E Filippi, E Y Menteşe & J McCloskey
Nature for resilience reconfigured: global- to-local translation of frames in Africa
K Rochell, H Bulkeley & H Runhaar
How hegemonic discourses of sustainability influence urban climate action
V Castán Broto, L Westman & P Huang
Fabric first: is it still the right approach?
N Eyre, T Fawcett, M Topouzi, G Killip, T Oreszczyn, K Jenkinson & J Rosenow
Social value of the built environment [editorial]
F Samuel & K Watson
Understanding demolition [editorial]
S Huuhka
Data politics in the built environment [editorial]
A Karvonen & T Hargreaves
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