Urban residents are gradually being exposed to increasing urban high temperatures and
extreme heatwave events under rapid urbanization and global warming. Although there is …

Thermal comfort is of growing interest to academics and practitioners, while the quality of
open urban spaces has received increasing attention in developed countries. Rapid …

Urban populations face increasing heat stress in cities. However, the influence of the built
environment of new and old urban blocks on pedestrian thermal comfort remains unclear …

The understanding of human outdoor thermal comfort demand and thermal adaptation
contributes to sustainable urban design as well as city resilience in the context of human …

Urban land use and anthropogenic heat (AH) emission can considerably influence the
human thermal comfort during extreme heat events. In this study, a spatially heterogeneous …

The individual and combined impacts of near-future urbanization and climate change on
thermal environment in July over the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area …

Rapid urbanization in China resulted in different architectural characteristics between the
rural (traditional, more open to external environment) and urban (modern, relatively closed …

This paper focuses on the influence of urban morphology on pedestrian outdoor thermal
comfort in Harbin, located in the severe cold region of northeast China. Three typical districts …

Global warming and rapid urbanization have exacerbated the urban heat island effect.
Urban parks contribute to alleviating such an effect and achieving the “carbon emission …

People's outdoor thermal comfort under hot conditions have been widely investigated, while
the ones in cold environments have not. To address this gap, this paper presented an …