Research on Urban Heat Island and Heavily Polluted Cities
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 28496
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental fluid dynamics; urban wind environment analysis; urban heat island
Interests: green building design; building simulation; building energy; urban heat island; sustainable urban development
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Interests: smart community planning; smart building management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the high speed of urban development in cities, the accompanying urban typology changes and urban anthropogenic heat emission have caused urban environmental problems such as urban heat islands and urban air pollution, which are attracting increasing attention from academic societies. Urban wind environment is providing the main effects on urban heat distribution and urban air pollution diffusion. Therefore, the mechanisms of the environmental effects from urban planning factors, including development intensity, urban building density, urban street typology, urban open space, and urban vegetation, have been well studied over the last few decades, and innovative simulation theory has been developed for microscaled urban wind environmental evaluation. Meanwhile, because of the high population density and the increased urban energy consumption, anthropogenic heat and air pollution emission from building and transportation sections have been evaluated for solution development. Low-carbon building design technology development and transportation-oriented urban planning could be considered for heat and air pollution emission reduction. Related measurements, evaluation, and solutions should be further studied for urban development and redevelopment in the future.
Prof. Dr. Zhaolin Gu
Dr. Yupeng Wang
Dr. Liyang Fan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban heat island
- urban air pollution
- urban environmental simulation
- sustainable urban planning
- urban typology
- anthropogenic heat emission
- urban wind environment
- urban vegetation
- urban transportation
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