Ventilating Cities : Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

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

• | Author: Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Feb 24, 2014
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 9400798466
• | ISBN-13: 9789400798465