Urban Design Guidelines for Climate Change / / by Hideki Takebayashi, Jihui Yuan (editors).

• TeilnehmendeR: Takebayashi, Hideki,; Yuan, Jihui,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)

The Special Issue consists of 13 submitted papers. We acknowledge all authors for their contributions. We recognize that interest in the topics is expanding and are confident that the findings are beneficial to our readers.

Table of Contents

Analysis of a New Index for the Thermal Performance of Horizontal Opaque Building Components in Summer 1 -- Effect of Urban Heat Island and Global Warming Countermeasures on Heat Release and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from a Detached House 17 -- Temperature of Paved Streets in Urban Mockups and Its Implication of Reflective Cool Pavements 39 -- Untangling Urban Sprawl and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature on Physical Planning and Transportation Drivers 51 -- Urban Resilience of Shenzhen City under Climate Change 71 -- Effects of Densification on Urban Microclimate-A Case Study for the City of Vienna 93 -- Impact of Urbanization on Sunshine Duration from 1987 to 2016 in Hangzhou City, China 117 -- Experimental Determination of Pedestrian Thermal Comfort on Water-Retaining Pavement for UHI Adaptation Strategy -- 131 -- Mobile Observation of Air Temperature and Humidity Distributions under Summer Sea Breezes in the Central Area of Osaka City 149 -- Indicators Framework for Sustainable Urban Design 165 -- Concentrations of Four Major Air Pollutants among Ecological Functional Zones in Shenyang, Northeast China 183 -- Local Climate Zone Classification Scheme Can Also Indicate Local-Scale Urban Ventilation Performance: An Evidence-Based Study 199 -- Study on the Accelerated Aging Test Method in the Development of a Self-Cleaning Topcoat for Cool Roofs 219.