Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780415712132
Subjects: Climatic changes; Climatology; City planning
Description: "The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-economy. Urban Climate Mitigation Techniques presents steps that can be taken to mitigate this situation through a series of innovative technologies and examples of best practices for the improvement of the urban climate. Including tools for evaluation and a comparative analysis, this book addresses anthropogenic heat, green areas, cool materials and pavements, outdoor shading structures, evaporative cooling and earth cooling. Case studies demonstrate the success and applicability of these measures in various cities throughout the world."--Publisher's description.