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.
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Kato, S., & Hiyama, K. (2012). Ventilating cities: Air-flow criteria for healthy and comfortable urban living. Ventilating Cities: Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living (pp. 1–197). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2771-7
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