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Urban Vegetation and Microclimatic Comfort in Warm Climates

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Since the beginning of civilisation, good and healthy places have been inevitably linked to spaces containing different forms and variations of greenery. This led to the fictional concept and the incessant search of “paradise”. Depictions of man-made paradise have been recorded throughout history by architectural visionaries. In the lack of such a perfect place in reality, paradise was sought in paintings, literature, and music. In all the artistic forms it is always linked to nature. It is part of our well-being to be connected to vegetation, with the environment.

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  1. The Graduate and Undergraduate School of the Architecture Department, University Centre of Brasilia, UniCeub, Brazil

    Gustavo Cantuaria

  2. Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

    Manuel Correia Guedes

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    Ali Sayigh

  2. DIDA Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Firenze, Firenze, Italy

    Antonella Trombadore

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Cantuaria, G., Guedes, M.C. (2022). Urban Vegetation and Microclimatic Comfort in Warm Climates. In: Sayigh, A., Trombadore, A. (eds) The Importance of Greenery in Sustainable Buildings. Innovative Renewable Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68556-0_4

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