High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate: Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities

Description

The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of climate-responsive urban design strategies and tactics for effectively mitigating the negative impacts of deteriorating urban thermal environments on pedestrian thermal comfort, outdoor air quality and building energy consumption. It also reviews the latest advances in urban climate research, with a focus on the challenges in terms of outdoor space comfort, health, and livability posed by the high-rise and high-density development in emerging Asian megacities, and proposes an integrated framework in response to the pressing need for microclimate research. It then presents a series of studies on high-rise residential and non-residential urban neighborhoods and districts based on instrumented field study, validated numerical simulation, and spatial analysis using a GIS platform. The book includes extensive, valuable experimental data presented in a clear and concise manner. The thermal atlas methodology based on empirical modeling and spatial analysis described is a useful climate-responsive design tool for both urban designer and architects. As such, the book is of particular interest to researchers, professionals, and graduate students in the fields of urban planning and design, building science and urban climatology. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 3-23 Urban Climates: Theories, Approaches, and Design Implications (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 25-46 Asian High-Rise Urbanism (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 47-74 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 Urban Heat Islands in High-Rise Residential Quarters (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 77-109 Pedestrian Wind in High-Rise Residential Quarters (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 111-137 Urban Thermal Radiant Environment and Heat Stress (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 139-161 Cooling Effects of Urban Greenery at Three Scales (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 163-183 Microclimate in High-Rise Central Business Districts (Feng Yang, Liang Chen)....Pages 185-211