Climate sensitive buildings: design for the urban tropics

Publication Year

2005

Document Status

Withdrawn

Abstract

Rapid urbanisation in the tropics has brought in its wake many hitherto unknown changes to humans, animals and plants and the physical environment. The climatic effect of urbanisation has not been understood nor the knowledge base applied by urban designers, planners, architects and engineers. In particular, the energy and bio-climatic implications of changes have received very little attention in urban design and planning. Lays out the problem of tropical urban climate anomaly and points to possibilities of mitigating these changes through design and planning options.

ISBN

0415334101

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