High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate

Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities

Feng Yang, Liang Chen

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Springer Singapore img Link Publisher

Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Beschreibung

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 megacities such as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of climate-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 districts based 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.



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local climate zone, urban geography and urbanism, high-rise and high density, hot summer and cold winter climate zone, urban greenery, urban heat islands, thermal comfort, Urban climate research, data-driven science, modeling and theory building, urban climate, sky view factor, micro climate, frontal area index, urban design