Air Circulation in Urban Areas

Bernardino, Annalisa Di; Palusci, Olga; Pini, Agnese; Leuzzi, Giovanni; Cacciani, Marco; Pelliccioni, Armando

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65421-4_10

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“…This feature is supported by the outcomes of the literature review presented in Section 4. Each method offers advantages and disadvantages that should be carefully considered, before starting the investigation, to select the appropriate approach and tool [224].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Excluding studies focused only on single buildings as beyond the scope of the present research, three different urban models may be identified, i.e., two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) UCs and 3D urban arrays. Urban models are selected to investigate the effects of certain morphological parameters on specific phenomena at the relevant scale [224,225]. Therefore, studies performed using 2D UCs mainly aim at investigating the impact of the UC aspect ratio [223,[226][227][228], the roof shape [229,230], and the height or height variation [229,231] (Figure 13).…”

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“…Each of the previous studies focused on sets of MPs: the plan area density and the floor space index [252]; the plan area density, the sky view factor, the tree view factor, and the green plot ratio [253]; the plan area density, the mean building height, the maximum building height, the standard deviation of the building height, and the façade area ratio [254]; and the plan area density, the mean building height, the root mean square of the building heights, the median of the building heights, the area-weighted mean building height, the volume density, and the façade area density [64]. Actual urban areas are used as case studies mainly for describing phenomena in specific contexts or for verifying the accuracy of computational setups [41,143,224,[255][256][257][258][259][260][261][262][263][264][265][266][267][268][269][270][271].…”

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In the last decades, a tendency towards urban tissue densification has been observed to counteract the urban sprawl. Densification may be achieved through more compact built areas, preferring the vertical to the horizontal development of buildings but avoiding bulky high-rise building blocks. This strategy significantly affects several aspects of the microclimate and produces direct and indirect effects on human health and well-being. In this regard, air pollution and heat stress constitute two increasing threats to human health and well-being that need to be faced immediately. The involved phenomena are various, intertwined, and may lead to conflicting results. Hence, regenerating existing, well-structured, and stratified urban areas by densification is not an easy challenge. Urban ventilation may favor the mitigation of detrimental effects of air pollution and heat stress on human life. Therefore, a multidisciplinary methodology is presented for embedding urban ventilation performance evaluation into urban management and planning processes. The scope is to propose a framework for urban renewal plans that is citizens-centered and aims at improving their health and well-being in existing urban areas. The methodology builds upon the performance-based approach and is supported by the conceptual framework and the literature reviews provided through the paper.

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confidence: 99%