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High-Rise Urban Form and MicroclimateAsian High-Rise Urbanism

High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate: Asian High-Rise Urbanism [This chapter firstly looks back in retrospect at the brief history and precedents of high-rise urbanism and then reviews the contemporary development of high-rise urbanism in Asian megacities by a comparison in economic, social, and environmental aspects of three Asian megacities, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The comparative study, with respect to climate, geography/topography, demography, urban governance and policy, etc., reveals that, while the new town system featuring high-rise high-density neighborhood and public transit-oriented development, as adopted by Singapore and Hong Kong, has effectively responded to the critical challenges such as land restriction in the progression of urbanization and evolved toward sustainable compact urban forms, the city of Shanghai seems to be influenced by the new urbanism movement mostly found in North American cities. With largely unsatisfactory government support in urban public service infrastructure and land-use planning for compact development, the intended city center redevelopment and suburbanization (the One City and Nine Towns scheme) seem to have led toward urban sprawling and deteriorating urban environment. The comparison indicates a more compact high-rise urban form may better support environmental sustainable development of Shanghai, and an integrated climate-responsive planning and design workflow are to be developed, and better inter- and cross-disciplinary communication is needed between urban climatology and urban design. For that, a framework is proposed for microclimate research and design integration for high-rise urbanism, and the parametrization of urban form on microclimate at three scales is listed for the followed case studies in Part Two.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

High-Rise Urban Form and MicroclimateAsian High-Rise Urbanism

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Springer Singapore
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© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020. Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project (No.: 51678413)
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978-981-15-1713-6
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47 –74
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10.1007/978-981-15-1714-3_3
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[This chapter firstly looks back in retrospect at the brief history and precedents of high-rise urbanism and then reviews the contemporary development of high-rise urbanism in Asian megacities by a comparison in economic, social, and environmental aspects of three Asian megacities, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The comparative study, with respect to climate, geography/topography, demography, urban governance and policy, etc., reveals that, while the new town system featuring high-rise high-density neighborhood and public transit-oriented development, as adopted by Singapore and Hong Kong, has effectively responded to the critical challenges such as land restriction in the progression of urbanization and evolved toward sustainable compact urban forms, the city of Shanghai seems to be influenced by the new urbanism movement mostly found in North American cities. With largely unsatisfactory government support in urban public service infrastructure and land-use planning for compact development, the intended city center redevelopment and suburbanization (the One City and Nine Towns scheme) seem to have led toward urban sprawling and deteriorating urban environment. The comparison indicates a more compact high-rise urban form may better support environmental sustainable development of Shanghai, and an integrated climate-responsive planning and design workflow are to be developed, and better inter- and cross-disciplinary communication is needed between urban climatology and urban design. For that, a framework is proposed for microclimate research and design integration for high-rise urbanism, and the parametrization of urban form on microclimate at three scales is listed for the followed case studies in Part Two.]

Published: Dec 12, 2019

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