Urban climate challenges in the tropics
Subtitle: rethinking design opportunities
By: [edited by] Rohinton Emmanuel (School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New Jersesy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781783268405
Subjects: Climatic factors; City planning; Urban climatology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Rohinton Emmanuel; title: Achieving Thermal Pleasure in Tropical Urban Outdoors / Rohinton Emmanuel; title: Management of Shading and Public Places / Tzu-Ping Lin; title: Urban Air Ventilation in High-density Cities in the Tropics / Edward Ng; title: Vegetation and Climate-sensitive Public Places / Denise H.S. Duarte; title: Urban Thermal Comfort in the Tropics / Erik Johansson; title: Urban Climate Mapping in the Tropics / Narein Perera; title: Urban Climate Modeling : Challenges in the Tropics / Renganathan Giridharan; title: Urban Exemplars of Climate-sensitive Design / Patricia Drach; title: Integration of Climate Knowledge in Urban Design and Planning / Gerald Mills.