Low-Carbon Urban Development and Building Design
This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban development and building design are affecting the living environment via inducing carbon emission during urban and building operation. In the face of environmental challenges, such as the depletion of natural resources, the deterioration of indoor and outdoor air quality, human thermal comfort and an aging society, architects and urban designers are required to create designs that combine related technologies. From the perspective of sustainable urban development, research related to low-carbon building evaluation and technology development is focusing on individual buildings. For sustainable urban planning and building design, the environmental effects of building layout and building facade design, as well as vegetation, should be evaluated. For low-carbon development, the relationship between outdoor climate change and indoor energy consumption should be considered because building design and surrounding conditions are effecting the overall carbon emission.
The aim of this Special Issue is to gather research that addresses comprehensive environmental problems and seeks to break the barriers between the building and urban scales.
Dr. Yupeng Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- low-carbon development
- urban environmental evaluation
- urban climate change
- urban energy consumption
- green building design
- renewable energy usage
- building energy consumption reduction
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Published Papers
Buildings - ISSN 2075-5309