Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama

Ventilating Cities

Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Springer Geography
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80023253, 978-94-007-2770-0
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9789400727700
• ISBN-10: 9400727704
• Artikelnr.: 34149974

Inhaltsangabe

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.