While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a
building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to
cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and
air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on
empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de
Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social
practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street
alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for
contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with
meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal
governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as
legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban
environments.
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