High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate : Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities /

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Author / Creator:Yang, Feng.
Imprint:Singapore : Springer, 2020.
Description:1 online resource (220 pages)
Language:English
Series:The Urban Book series
Urban book series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12602945
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Other authors / contributors:Chen, Li'ang.
ISBN:9789811517143
9811517142
9789811517150
9811517150
9789811517167
9811517169
9789811517136
9811517134
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:6.2.2 Spatio-Temporal Variations of Tmrt in Two Urban Settings
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Summary:The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacitiessuch as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding ofclimate-responsive urban design strategies and tactics for effectively mitigating the negative impacts of deteriorating urban thermal environments on pedestrian thermal comfort, outdoor air quality and building energy consumption. It also reviews the latest advances in urban climate research, with a focus on the challenges in terms of outdoor space comfort, health, and livability posed by the high-rise and high-density development in emerging Asian megacities, and proposes an integrated framework in response to the pressing need for microclimate research. It then presents a series of studies on high-rise residential and non-residential urban neighborhoods and districtsbased on instrumented field study, validated numerical simulation, and spatial analysis using a GIS platform. The book includes extensive, valuable experimental data presented in a clear and concise manner. The thermal atlas methodology based on empirical modeling and spatial analysis described is a useful climate-responsive design tool for both urban designer and architects. As such, the book is of particular interest to researchers, professionals, and graduate students in the fields of urban planning and design, building science and urban climatology.
Other form:Print version: Yang, Feng. High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate : Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities. Singapore : Springer, ©2020 9789811517136
Standard no.:10.1007/978-981-15-1
10.1007/978-981-15-1714-3