Extensive review for urban climatology: definitions, aspects and scales. | ||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||
| Article 5, Volume 7, 7th International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering, May 2008, Pages 550-593 PDF (3.23 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccae.2008.45414 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamad Fahmy1; Steve Sharples2; Abdul-Wahab Al-Kady3 | ||
| 1School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK and Department of Architecture, Military Technical Collage, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| 2Head of the Environmental research group, School of architecture, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. | ||
| 3Department of Architecture, Military Technical Collage, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| There are many energy budget models and classifications of urban climate layers, field measurements, simulations and researches in the field of urban climatology that concerns about the mutual impact of climate and urban form, (Landsberg, 1973), (Oke, 1984), (Mayer and Hoppe, 1987), (Golany, 1996), (Schiller and Evans, 1996), (Eliasson, 2000), (Arnfield, 2003) and (Oke, 2006). Although there is a magnificent progress in the field, but some few promising world wide projects (Oke, 2006), and some design studies and methodologies (Bitan, 1988), (Pearlmutter et al., 1999) and (Ali-Toudert and Mayer, 2007), the application for that knowledge still away from the urban form sensitive design, because they have been done from the physical, mathematical and meteorological points of view but haven't been investigated till now from the applied urban planning and design point of view specially at local scale of a neighborhood climate. The need is for all parties of the urban field as in real process, the scientific circle won't be closed without the architects, urban designers, planners, Econo-sociologists and psychologists' participation in the model. However this extensive paper is prepared to introduce this large field of knowledge about how to design urban fabric and patterns in accordance to climate aspects and its scales of application along with definitions concerning human thermal comfort in the field. | ||
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