Urban Design Guidelines for Climate Change (2nd edition)
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2025 | Viewed by 465
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban heat islands; mitigation and adaptation measures; cool roof; green roof; cool pavement; urban ventilation; radiant environment; air conditioning load
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Interests: building environment; urban heat islands; building energy savings; building surface coating materials; solar radiation; air-conditioning heat loads; weather database
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the “Urban Design Guidelines for Climate Change”, we are pleased to launch the 2nd edition. This Special Issue invites researchers from all world-leading universities and research institutions to contribute their research achievements in this field.
The Special Issue aims to publish state-of-the-art research findings or review articles addressing the problems and future challenges in improving (1) urban and architectural designs that mainly include reasonable and effective application of new advanced materials and renewable energy in urban buildings; (2) urban landscapes that mainly include layout of urban blocks and urban greening coverage; and (3) other research fields related to urban environmental engineering to cope with the current climate change phenomenon and reduce environmental burden.
The Special Issue covers the following topics:
- Evaluation of the interaction between urban buildings and urban climate by means of field measurement, experimental models, and numerical simulation;
- Impact of urban landscape change on urban climate or local microclimate environment;
- Application of new advanced building materials for urban heat island mitigation and energy savings;
- Selection of climatic conditions for building design;
- Building load simulation and calculation.
Dr. Hideki Takebayashi
Dr. Jihui Yuan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- urban and architectural design
- advanced building materials
- urban landscape
- renewable energy
- energy saving
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