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Urban Planning, 2016 Many cities are undergoing rapid urbanisation and intensification with the unintended consequence of creating dense urban fabric with deep ‘urban canyons’.
Marcus White +4 more
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Climate, 2018 The sky view factor (SVF) has an important role in the analysis of the urban micro-climate. A new vector-based SVF calculation tool was implemented in a free and open source Geographic Information System named OrbisGIS.
Jérémy Bernard +3 more
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Addressing sustainability in architectural education from urban to building scale: Reflections on the environmental design studio [PDF]
, 2013 Over the past decade, new approaches have emerged to renewable energy educationto address the needs for sustainable energy supply systems. In addition, unlike conventional architectural education, which does not cover renewable energy issues in its ...
Sokol Dervishi
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Downscaling of global solar irradiation in R [PDF]
, 2013 A methodology for downscaling solar irradiation from satellite-derived databases is described using R software. Different packages such as raster, parallel, solaR, gstat, sp and rasterVis are considered in this study for improving solar resource ...
Antoñanzas Torres, Fernando +3 more
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Simulating the influence of microclimatic design on mitigating the urban heat island effect in the Hangzhou metropolitan area of China [PDF]
, 2016 There are many indications that Urban Heat Island (UHI) is a significant contributor to the increased emission of greenhouse gases due to the increase in energy consumption for cooling during summer. Hangzhou is currently the second hottest city in China,
Bruse +4 more
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Evaluation of summer thermal conditions and the environmental efficiency of different urban square designs in Mendoza, Argentina [PDF]
, 2013 El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar las consecuencias de las decisiones de diseño sobre el comportamiento térmico y la eficiencia ambiental de las plazas de la ciudad de Mendoza.
Canton, Maria Alicia +2 more
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Investigating the Magnitude and Range of the Urban Heat Island within Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [PDF]
, 2017 Cities experience UHIs due to the thermal properties (albedo, thermal emittance, radiative flux, and heat capacity) of human-made substances and urban geometry.
Thompson, Samuel S., Wilkins, Rachel A.
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Entre-Lugar, 2018 The present work is a result of the development of the project “Transformations and conformations of a landscape in (re) construction: The Case of Viçosa-MG.“, which objective was to analyze the temperature variation on the daily and hourly scales during
Edson Soares Fialho +1 more
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BuildingsUrban greenery is essential for environmental quality, visual comfort, and residents’ well-being, and it becomes especially critical in high-density residential compounds where outdoor space is limited.
Guanting Zhang +3 more
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A statistical approach for estimating mean maximum urban temperature excess. [PDF]
, 2003 Munkánkban a városi hősziget (UHI) maximális napi kifejlődését vizsgáltuk Szegeden, a beépítettségi paraméterek függvényében. A hőmérsékleti adatok valamint a beépítettségi arány, a vízfelszín-arány, az égbolt láthatósági index és az épületmagasság ...
Balázs, B. +3 more
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