Coping with urban climates : comparative perspectives on architecture and thermal governance / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roesler, Sascha, 1971- editor.

Kobi, Madlen, 1982- editor.

Stieger, Lorenzo, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

KLIMA POLIS ; vol. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and climate.

Urban ecological design.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps, plans ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Comparative perspectives on architecture and thermal governance

Place of Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2022]

Summary:

While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban environments.

Contents:

Preface / Sascha Roesler

Coping with urban climates: an introduction / Sascha Roesler

Urban climates : Geneva (Switzerland) : The architecturalization of water ecologies: on the integration of energy transition and climate adaptation / Lorenzo Stieger

Santiago de Chile : The standarization of indoor-outdoor transitions: on the dynamics between public spaces and climate control / Lionel Epiney

Chongqing (People's Republic of China) : The electrification of the urban fabric: on governing the built environment's seasonality / Madlen Kobi

Cairo (Egypt) : The domestication of urban heat: on everyday production of microclimates / Dalia Ghodbane

Thermal governance : Architecture and thermal governance: six components / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger ; New urban climate protocols: visualizing socio-climatic differences / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Adrian Ehrat; with the support of Lionel Epiney and Dalila Ghodbane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783035624212

3035624216

OCLC:

1328023906