Application of climatic guidelines to urban planning

Alcoforado, María João; Andrade, Henrique; Lopes, António; Vasconcelos, João

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.10.006

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“…As identified in numerous studies (e.g., [36][37][38][39][40]), the scientific community has recognised a weakness in studies that focus on Mediterranean 'Csa' climates with regard to local approaches to thermal comfort thresholds. Such a deficiency often generally relays to a lack of local scale design guidelines and precedents that could otherwise inform practices such as PSD to attenuate thermal comfort during dry and hot Mediterranean summers.…”

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Approaches to Outdoor Thermal Comfort Thresholds through Public Space Design: A Review

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Based on the Köppen Geiger (KG) classification system, this review article examines existing studies and projects that have endeavoured to address local outdoor thermal comfort thresholds through Public Space Design (PSD). The review is divided into two sequential stages, whereby (1) overall existing approaches to pedestrian thermal comfort thresholds are reviewed within both quantitative and qualitative spectrums; and (2) the different techniques and measures are reviewed and framed into four Measure Review Frameworks (MRFs), in which each type of PSD measure is presented alongside its respective local scale urban specificities/conditions and their resulting thermal attenuation outcomes. The result of this review article is the assessment of how current practices of PSD within three specific subcategories of the KG 'Temperate' group have addressed microclimatic aggravations such as elevated urban temperatures and Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects. Based upon a bottom-up approach, the interdisciplinary practice of PSD is hence approached as a means to address existing and future thermal risk factors within the urban public realm in an era of potential climate change.

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Approaches to Outdoor Thermal Comfort Thresholds through Public Space Design: A Review

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“…Still, and often within southern Europe, many cities habitually present a noteworthy absence of climatological data/know-how that could prove useful for local decision making and design within the urban public realm [1].…”

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The Impact of Tipuana tipu Species on Local Human Thermal Comfort Thresholds in Different Urban Canyon Cases in Mediterranean Climates: Lisbon, Portugal

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Based upon the case of Lisbon, this article examined the in-situ effects of vegetation upon pedestrian thermal comfort levels. Focussing specifically upon the historic quarter that often witnesses the highest T amb values and Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensities during the summer, the most common urban canyon cases (UCCs) were modelled, along with one of the most commonly used vegetative semi-deciduous species found in the city, Tipuana tipu. Based upon a reference point (RP) system, the assessments were undertaken through the use of a new version of the SkyHelios model, local obtained G rad values, and the modified physiologically equivalent temperature (mPET) index calculated through the human-biometeorological model RayMan. The study identified the in-situ thermo-physiological influences of Tipuana tipu during different periods of the year: (1) during the summer, which revealed considerable reductions of PET/mPET of up to 15.6 • C/11.6 • C during a very hot day (where daily maximum T amb surpassed 35 • C); and (2) during the winter, which revealed the risks of oversharing as a result of the species keeping its foliage during the winter with reductions of PET/mPET of up to 2.7 • C/2.6 • C. Furthermore, the study utilised the climate tourism/transfer information scheme (CTIS) to categorise and facilitate the interpretation of the results.

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“…A metodologia para a definição das classes de ventilação e dos climatopos, na área urbana de Guimarães, teve como referência o trabalho de Alcoforado et al (2005Alcoforado et al ( , 2009 para Lisboa. As classes de ventilação traduzem a interação entre os fatores climáticos que controlam a circulação do ar, ao nível local e regional, e os processos verticais de substituição das massas de ar, que resulta em condições de ventilação características e distintas (Scherer et al, 1999 (Pinheiro, 2012).…”

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“…A partir da análise conjunta destes fatores climáticos é possível identificar e caracterizar diferentes climatopos (Acero et al, 2013) -i.e., áreas com características relativamente homogéneas, que potencialmente apresentarão uma resposta climática semelhante (Scherer et al, 1999;Alcoforado et al, 2005Alcoforado et al, , 2009. Neste trabalho, analisou-se, para a área urbana de Guimarães, o padrão espacial de T s , procurando-se estabelecer a sua relação com os usos do solo (derivados a partir de índices espectrais), de modo a avaliar a carga térmica.…”

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Análise do ambiente térmico e das condições de ventilação para a definição das funções climáticas na área urbana de Guimarães

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Application of climatic guidelines to urban planning

Cited by 146 publications

References 31 publications

Approaches to Outdoor Thermal Comfort Thresholds through Public Space Design: A Review

Approaches to Outdoor Thermal Comfort Thresholds through Public Space Design: A Review

The Impact of Tipuana tipu Species on Local Human Thermal Comfort Thresholds in Different Urban Canyon Cases in Mediterranean Climates: Lisbon, Portugal

Análise do ambiente térmico e das condições de ventilação para a definição das funções climáticas na área urbana de Guimarães

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