Urban wind environment : integrated climate sensitive planning and design / Chao Yuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yuan, Chao, author.

Series:

Springerbriefs in architectural design and technology.

Springer briefs in architectural design and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

City planning--Health aspects.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 171 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional experience-based ways to a more scientific, evidence-based process of decision making in both urban planning and architectural design stage. This book introduces novel yet practical modelling and mapping methods, and provides scientific understandings of the urban typologies and wind environment from the urban to building scale through real examples and case studies. The tools provided in this book aid a systematic implementation of environmental information from urban planning to building design by making wind information more accessible to both urban planners and architects, and significantly increasing the impact of urban climate information on the practical urban planning and design. This book is a useful reference book to architectural postgraduates, design practitioners and planners, urban climate researchers, as well as policy makers for developing future livable and sustainable cities.

Contents:

High-density planning and challenges

Part I. Urban scale wind environment

Empirical morphological model to evaluate urban wind permeability in high-density cities

Implementation of morphological method in urban planning

Part II. Neighborhood scale wind environment

Semiempirical model for fine-scale assessment of pedestrian-level wind in high-density cities

Part III. Building scale wind environment

Building porosity for better urban ventilation in high-density cities

Natural ventilation modeling and analysis for climate-sensitive architecture design

Part IV. Others - urban air quality and trees

Improving air quality by understanding the relationship between air pollutant dispersion and building morphologies

A semi-empirical model for urban trees effects on the wind environment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index.

ISBN:

9789811054501

9811054509

OCLC:

989966699