Designing cooler cities : energy, cooling and urban form : the Asian perspective / Ali Cheshmehzangi, Chris Butters, editors.
Cheshmehzangi, Ali, editor.; Butters, Chris P., 1950- editor.
2018
HT165.53.A7
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Title
Designing cooler cities : energy, cooling and urban form : the Asian perspective / Ali Cheshmehzangi, Chris Butters, editors.
ISBN
9789811066382 (electronic book)
9811066388 (electronic book)
9789811066375
981106637X
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxvii, 204 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
HT165.53.A7
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.76
Summary
This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues involved, addressing the three levels of micro (individual buildings), meso (neighbourhoods/districts) and macro (whole or large parts of cities). It illustrates different paradigms of urban development and explores how to create cooler cities by applying integrated sustainable design and planning on all three levels, bridging the gap between specialist approaches by highlighting both built projects, processes, and research. It also raises questions about prevalent paradigms of urban development as well as topics relating to urban district cooling solutions, sustainable construction materials, and processes towards effective delivery of sustainable cities. Providing cutting edge insights into hot climate cities in Asia, this text is also pertinent for the study of cities in other world regions, notably in developing countries, and of broad relevance to sustainable urban planning in all contexts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cheshmehzangi, Ali, editor.
Butters, Chris P., 1950- editor.
Series
Palgrave series in Asia and Pacific studies.
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Introduction / Ali Cheshmehzangi and Chris Butters
Cities, climate and cooling / Chris Butters and Ali Cheshmehzangi
Reducing cooling loads in hot-humid climates: a best practice research building in China / Ali Cheshmehzangi and Linjun Xie
In tune with nature: a low energy office building in tropical Colombo / Upendra Rajapaksha
Towards cooler buildings: the case of Thailand / Chris Butters and Pattana Rakkwamsuk
Cooling with green infrastructures: the influence of trees on thermal conditions in tropical urban parks / Yun Hye Hwang, Qin Jie Geraldine Lum, and Li Xuan Cherlyn Lim
Designing residential microclimates: Malhar eco-village in Bangalore, India / Ali Cheshmehzangi, Ayotunde Dawodu, and Amir Cheshmehzangi
Modeling city patterns for urban ventilation: strategies in high density areas of Singapore / Abel Tablada and Yueyang He
'Summoning' wind for urban cooling: urban wind corridor projects in China / Dong-Li Hong and Shiuh-Shen Chien
District cooling: a key solution for hot climate cities / Chris Butters, Adzuieen Nordin, and Danny Tam Hong Khai
Cooler cities: what kinds of city? / Chris Butters
Conclusions and recommendations / Ali Cheshmehzangi and Chris Butters.

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