Systematic literature reviews: Part I

Abstract

PARC Research in Architecture and Construction carried out in 2017 a specific call for articles of Systematic Review of Literature (SLR). SLRs are secondary studies aimed at mapping, finding, critically assessing, consolidating and aggregating the results of relevant primary studies on a specific research topic, as well as identifying research gaps. This call had great repercussion, having the magazine received approximately 50 submissions. In this way, two issues will be published in 2017, specially dedicated to SLRs, and this number contains the first part of these studies. A section was also added to the journal to disseminate this type of academic study continually. This issue presents Systematic Reviews of Literature carried out by researchers from the Brazilian states of São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso. The institutions of origin of the authors cover the State University of Campinas, the University of São Paulo, Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho State University, the Federal University of Latin American Integration and the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Mato Grosso. The training areas involved concentrate on Architecture and Urbanism interacting with Civil Engineering, Physics, Music and Physical Education. The topics covered are: flexibility in architectural design, cycling transportation planning, the relationship between Henri Lefebvre's (HL) concepts and architecture in contemporary academic debate, the thermal behavior of internal built environments under the influence of green envelopes, architectural features and the sound decay of coupled rooms and the origin, evolution and importance of perforated elements (cobogos).