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Diversity and Thermal Comfort in Outdoor Places

The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review, 2011
Sustainable cities should be livable cities where people from different backgrounds and with different aspirations can meet and interact with each other. Public places being the urban stages where the social interactions happen are considered important parts of cities (Thompson, 2002; Varna, 2009).
Inji Kenawy, Hisham ElKadi
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Outdoor thermal comfort - An adaptive model to assess thermal comfort in urban outdoors in New Zealand.

2022
<p><b>This research attempts to integrate human thermal adaptation into thermal comfort assessment in order to explore the complex link between microclimate, thermal comfort, thermal adaptation, and user expectations in outdoor urban parks in New Zealand.
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Effect of thermal adaptation on seasonal outdoor thermal comfort

International Journal of Climatology, 2011
AbstractThermal perceptions and preferences of individuals outdoors cannot be entirely explained by the energy balance of the human body. They are also affected by psychological and behavioural factors or the so‐called thermal adaptation. To examine the effect of thermal adaptation on seasonal outdoor thermal comfort, 1644 interviews with concurrent ...
Tzu‐Ping Lin   +2 more
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Effect of Tree Species on Outdoor Thermal Comfort

2021
Tree planting is one of the veritable tools for combating urban heat island and improving thermal comfort in the wake of global warming and urbanisation. However, trees of different species and morphological properties have variable solar attenuation capacity and consequently, thermal comfort regulation potential.
Kevin Ka-Lun Lau   +3 more
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Theoretical dimension of outdoor thermal comfort research

Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019
Abstract Traditional methods to process comfort data are constantly criticised due to their inability to provide an explanation for thermal satisfaction achievement. Theories, however, seem to present a solution to this growing issue. Therefore, this study aims to review how the efforts made in the existing literature can benefit from theoretical ...
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Shading effect on long-term outdoor thermal comfort

Building and Environment, 2010
Abstract Shading affects outdoor thermal environments and, therefore, influences the thermal perceptions of people in outdoor spaces. Since most field studies examining outdoor thermal comfort merely elucidated characteristics measured on a particular day, these studies may not represent annual thermal conditions accurately.
Lin, Tzu-Ping   +2 more
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