Author: International Conference on Urban ClimatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: International Conference on Urban ClimatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Fifth International Conference on Urban Climate 1-5 September, 2003 Łódź, Poland
Author: Kazimierz KłysikPublisher:
ISBN: 9788391672808
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fifth International Conference on Urban Climate 1-5 September, 2003 Łódź, Poland
Author: John ArnfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9788391672815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Fifth International Conference on Urban Climate
Author: Proceedings, Fifth International Conference on Urban Climate
Author: Kazimierz KłysikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bioclimatology
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Urban Climates
Author: T. R. OkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108179363
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around buildings, the heat island, precipitation modification and air pollution, and it then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of urban development and help create more sustainable and resilient cities. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this timely book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in fields such as climatology, urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering and urban design.
The Urban Climatic Map
Author: Edward NgPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317510526
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping of this phenomenon is crucial for urban planners. The book brings together experts in the field of Urban Climatic Mapping to provide the state of the art understanding on how urban climatic knowledge can be made available and utilized by urban planners. The book contains the technology, methodology, and various focuses and approaches of urban climatic map making. It illustrates this understanding with examples and case studies from around the world, and it explains how urban climatic information can be analysed, interpreted and applied in urban planning. The book attempts to bridge the gap between the science of urban climatology and the practice of urban planning. It provides a useful one-stop reference for postgraduates, academics and urban climatologists wishing to better understand the needs for urban climatic knowledge in city planning; and urban planners and policy makers interested in applying the knowledge to design future sustainable cities and quality urban spaces.
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Author: Understanding Urban Ecology
Author: Myrna H. P. HallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030112594
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Over half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Few who live in cities understand that cities, too, are ecosystems, as beholden to the laws and principles of ecology as are natural ecosystems. Understanding Urban Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach introduces students at the college undergraduate level, or those in advanced-standing college credit high school courses, to cities as ecosystems. For graduate students it provides an overview and rich literature base. Urban planners, educators, and decision makers can use this book to help in designing a more sustainable or “green” future. The authors use a systems approach to explore the complexity and interactions of different components of a city’s ecology with an emphasis on the energy and materials required to maintain such concentrated centers of human activity and consumption. The book is written by seventeen specialized contributors and includes ten accompanying detailed field exercises to promote hands-on experience, observation, and quantification of urban ecosystem structure and function.The chapters describe one by one the different subsystems of the urban environment, their individual components and functions, and the interactions among them that create the social-ecological environments in which we live. The book’s emphasis on social-ecological metabolism provides students with the knowledge and methods needed to evaluate proposed policies for urban sustainability in terms of ecosystem capacity, potential positive and negative feedbacks, the laws of thermo-dynamics, and socio-cultural perception and adaptability.