High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate Climate-Responsive Design for
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 megacitiessuch as Shanghai. It helps readers
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Feng Yang Liang Chen
High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities
The Urban Book Series Editorial Board Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian, University of Newcastle, Singapore, Singapore, Silk Cities & Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, London, UK Michael Batty, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, London, UK Simin Davoudi, Planning & Landscape Department GURU, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK Geoffrey DeVerteuil, School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Andrew Kirby, New College, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA Karl Kropf, Department of Planning, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK Karen Lucas, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Marco Maretto, DICATeA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Fabian Neuhaus, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Vitor Manuel Aráujo de Oliveira, Porto University, Porto, Portugal Christopher Silver, College of Design, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Giuseppe Strappa, Facoltà di Architettura, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Roma, Italy Igor Vojnovic, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Jeremy W. R. Whitehand, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate Climate-Responsive Design for Asian Mega-Cities
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Feng Yang College of Architecture and Urban Planning Tongji University Shanghai, China
Liang Chen School of Geographic Sciences East China Normal University Shanghai, China
Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project (No.: 51678413) ISSN 2365-757X ISSN 2365-7588 (electronic) The Urban Book Series ISBN 978-981-15-1713-6 ISBN 978-9
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