Cool City Design: Integrating Real-Time Urban Canyon Assessment into the Design Process for Chinese and Australian Cities

Many cities are undergoing rapid urbanisation and intensification with the unintended consequence of creating dense urban fabric with deep ‘urban canyons’. Urban densification can trap longwave radiation impacting on local atmospheric conditions, contributing to the phenomena known as the Urban Heat...

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Main Author: White, Marcus (author)
Other Authors: Hu, Youpei (author), Langenheim, Nano (author), Ding, Wowo (author), Burry, Mark (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v1i3.646
Country:Portugal
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