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Informed Urban EnvironmentsUrban Microclimate Spatiotemporal Mapping: A Method to Evaluate Thermal Comfort Availability in Urban Ecosystems

Informed Urban Environments: Urban Microclimate Spatiotemporal Mapping: A Method to Evaluate... [Attractive urban space is fundamental for creating safe and healthy cities. In the context of the climate crisis, microclimate becomes a determining factor for the use of public space in pursuing a just and equal society. Shifting to non-motorized modes of individual transport has manifold effects on the quality of urban environments in terms of safety, health, and spatial justice. Considering the need for quantifying microclimatic conditions in urban space, this chapter presents a methodology applied to a case study in the Boston Back Bay Area that develops a factor to indicate spatiotemporal outdoor comfort availability. The factor is based on a simulation workflow that generates datasets and maps, to be employed to quantify outdoor comfort availability at the pedestrian level with a high spatiotemporal resolution in adaptive spatial domains. The maps can be employed to compare different scenarios and neighbourhoods, and can serve as a base to put into evidence the influence of comfort and to formulate indications to increase outdoor thermal comfort in urban ecosystems. For promoting a tangible improvement of the city, pleasant environmental conditions are fundamental to accommodate pedestrian flows and to facilitate the implementation of social justice and public health.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Informed Urban EnvironmentsUrban Microclimate Spatiotemporal Mapping: A Method to Evaluate Thermal Comfort Availability in Urban Ecosystems

Part of the The Urban Book Series Book Series
Editors: Chokhachian, Ata; Hensel, Michael U.; Perini, Katia
Santucci, Daniele
Informed Urban Environments — May 10, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-03802-0
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125 –144
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-03803-7_8
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Abstract

[Attractive urban space is fundamental for creating safe and healthy cities. In the context of the climate crisis, microclimate becomes a determining factor for the use of public space in pursuing a just and equal society. Shifting to non-motorized modes of individual transport has manifold effects on the quality of urban environments in terms of safety, health, and spatial justice. Considering the need for quantifying microclimatic conditions in urban space, this chapter presents a methodology applied to a case study in the Boston Back Bay Area that develops a factor to indicate spatiotemporal outdoor comfort availability. The factor is based on a simulation workflow that generates datasets and maps, to be employed to quantify outdoor comfort availability at the pedestrian level with a high spatiotemporal resolution in adaptive spatial domains. The maps can be employed to compare different scenarios and neighbourhoods, and can serve as a base to put into evidence the influence of comfort and to formulate indications to increase outdoor thermal comfort in urban ecosystems. For promoting a tangible improvement of the city, pleasant environmental conditions are fundamental to accommodate pedestrian flows and to facilitate the implementation of social justice and public health.]

Published: May 10, 2022

Keywords: Urban microclimate; Urban morphology; Urban mobility; Human health and well-being; Big data analytics

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