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Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Policies Strategic Environmental Assessment and Upgrading Guidelines to Attain Sustainable Development Goals
This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal...
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Urban Microclimate Modelling for Comfort and Energy Studies
This book discusses urban microclimate and heat-related risks in urban areas, brought on by the combination of global climate change effects and...
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Urban Climate and Building Energy Performance in Compact Cities in Mediterranean Climate
Cities in the Mediterranean basin are characterised by compact and dense urban fabric, leading to a strong night-time urban heat island (UHI)...
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Integrating Urban Climate Knowledge: The Need for a New Knowledge Infrastructure to Support Climate-Responsive Urbanism
Cities are a spatial nexus for the anthropogenic drivers of climate changes at local, regional and global scales. These drivers are the result of...
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Comfort and Energy Implications of Urban Microclimate in High Latitudes
This chapter presents the urban microclimate impact on comfort and energy demand by buildings located in high-latitude temperate regions,...
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The Coupling of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model with the Urban Canopy Models for Climate Simulations
Understanding the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon aids in the better predictions and analyses of its mitigation strategies. The mesoscale Weather...
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Enhancing Energy Performance and Comfort of Built Environment in Tropical Climates
A lack of scientific basis for the conception and development of urban environments has been evidenced in tropical climates. The lack of urban...
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Informal Settlements and Urban Slums’ Upgrading in Megacities: Conclusions and Recommendations
This chapter presents the lessons learned from the case studies of informal settlements upgrading in megacities globally and locally. It also...
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Assessment of One of the Slum Areas in Develo** Countries: Maspero Triangle—Cairo as a Case Study
Exploring and examining slums’ dwellers’ ways of living and how they interact with the society provide a comprehensive, most important intimation and...
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Informal Urban Settlements and Slums’ Upgrading: Global Case Studies
This chapter analyzes the exact variables of informal settlements and slums. It presents a full understanding, importance, and morphology of...
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Urban Weather Generator: Physics-Based Microclimate Simulation for Performance-Oriented Urban Planning
Deciphering the urban microclimate is a long-standing research topic which has been lately consolidated as a major interest in the built energy and...
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Impact of Local Urban Climate on Building Energy Performance: Case Studies in Mendoza, Argentina
Building thermal performance and its energy consumption are affected by the energy exchange processes taking place between the outer skin or envelope...
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Green Infrastructure to Reduce the Energy Demand of Cities
Over the past decades, intense urbanisation processes resulted in built environments with a severe lack of green spaces and thus with low potential...
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Cool Materials for Passive Cooling in Buildings
Cool materials are an acknowledged, environmentally friendly and relatively cost-effective solution that can be easily integrated in the built...
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Urban Microclimate and Building Energy Simulation Coupling Techniques
This chapter presents a review bringing a critical overview of the different ways in which the urban microclimate is currently considered in building...
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Spatial Metrics to Investigate the Impact of Urban Form on Microclimate and Building Energy Performance: An Essential Overview
The spatial configuration of cities has recently been the subject of several studies in a variety of disciplines, including geography, urban ecology,...
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Urban Microclimatic Conditions in Arid Climates
It is a well-known fact that different design characteristics applied to urban spaces, such as streets, public squares and parking lots can generate...
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Air Circulation in Urban Areas
One of the consequences of the dramatic increase in urbanization that has taken place in recent years is the replacement of rural and green areas...
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Urban Morphology as a Mitigation Strategy of Urban Warming in “Oasis Cities” of Arid Regions
Cities have a synergy between the microclimatic conditions generated by the urban form, their interaction with its envelope materials and trees, and...
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Comparing ENVI-Met and Grasshopper Modelling Strategies to Assess Local Thermal Stress and Urban Heat Island Effects
Due to digital advancements, climate and energy modellers can take advantage of increasingly sophisticated codes to shed new light on the complex...