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Ventilating Cities

Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-94-007-9846-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erscheinungstermin: 24.02.2014
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The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation performance and thermal comfort. This book is organized in two parts; Wind Environment and the Urban Environment and Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environments. It includes chapters on sea breeze in urban areas; thermal adaptation and the effect of wind on thermal comfort;  health risk of exposures; pollutant transport in dense urban areas;  legal regulations for urban ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind environment.

Keywords: urban wind environments, urban heat island, urban climate, land use change, thermal comfort, risk assessment, urban air pollution, urban ventilation


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9789400798465
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-94-007-9846-5
  • Verlag: Springer Netherlands
  • Erscheinungstermin: 24.02.2014
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2012
  • Serie: Springer Geography
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Previously published in hardcover
  • Gewicht: 324 g
  • Seiten: 198
  • Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 12 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1.Introduction.-  Part I: Wind Environment and Urban Environment.- 2. Sea breeze blowing into urban area: mitigation of the urban heat island phenomenon.- 3. Thermal adaptation outdoors and the effect of wind on thermal comfort.- 4. Health Risk of Exposure to Vehicular Emissions in Wind Stagnant Street Canyons.- 5. Pollutant Transport in Dense Urban Areas.-  Part II: Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environment.- 6. Legal regulations for urban ventilation.- 7. New Criteria for Assessing Local Wind Environment at Pedestrian Level and the Applications.- Index.