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Energy and Climate in the Urban Built Environment (Hardcover)
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Energy and Climate in the Urban Built Environment (Hardcover)
Series: BEST Buildings Energy and Solar Technology
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Both the number and percentage of people living in urban areas is
growing rapidly. Up to half of the world's population is expected
to be living in a city by the end of the century and there are over
170 cities in the world with populations over a million. Cities
have a huge impact on the local climate and require vast quantities
of energy to keep them functioning. The urban environment in turn
has a big impact on the performance and needs of buildings. The
size, scale and mechanism of these interactions is poorly
understood and strategies to mitigate them are rarely implemented.
This is the first comprehensive book to address these questions. It
arises out of a programme of work (POLISTUDIES) carried out for the
Save programme of the European Commission. Chapters describe not
only the main problems encountered such as the heat island and
canyon effects, but also a range of design solutions that can be
adopted both to improve the energy performance and indoor air
quality of individual buildings and to look at aspects of urban
design that can reduce these climatic effects. The book concludes
with some examples of innovative urban bioclimatic buildings. The
project was co-ordinated by Professor Mat Santamouris from the
University of Athens who is also the editor of the book. Other
contributions are from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece,
ENTPE, Lyons, France and the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
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