Urban Design Guidelines for Climate Change

• Other Authors: Takebayashi, Hideki (Editor), Yuan, Jihui (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; Environmental science, engineering & technology; heat island; cool roof; solar reflectance; self-cleaning; accelerated aging test; urban ventilation performance; local climate zone; evidence-based analysis; downtown ventilation performance; relative mean wind speed; ecological functional zone; hourly concentration; land-use type; pollutant; architecture; assessment; tool; indicators; sustainability; cities; building density; mobile observation; sea breeze; urban heat island; urban ventilation; river island; human thermal load; surface material; evaporation; watering; subjective experiment; sunshine duration; solar radiation; change trend; urbanization effect; urban microclimate; urban fabric; urban densification; microclimate simulations; urban heat island effect; climate adaption measures; thermal comfort; building refurbishment; building simulation; extreme precipitation; temporal change; CMIP6; prediction; urban resilience; sponge city; climate change; urban sprawl; urban form; land use; physical planning; urban transportation; greenhouse gas emission; energy consumption; urban street; temperature; sky view factor; cool pavements; street orientation; sensible heat release; carbon dioxide emissions; detached house; countermeasure; building cooling; periodic thermal transmittance; roof; SRI; thermal inertia; thermal insulation; thermal transmittance
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The Special Issue consists of 13 submitted papers. We acknowledge all authors for their contributions. We recognize that interest in the topics is expanding and are confident that the findings are beneficial to our readers.