High-rise and high-density buildings are increasing with the rapid urban development,
which leads to many urban thermal environment problems represented by the urban heat …

Urban overheating represents an internationally acknowledged anthropogenic
phenomenon related to climate change and to the massive shift of population worldwide …

Urban environment well-being has become a crucial public issue to face, given the huge
concentration of population and climate change-related hazards at a city scale. In this view …

Raising urban albedo increases the fraction of incident sunlight returned to outer space,
cooling cities and their buildings. We evaluated the angular distribution of solar radiation …

The combination of urban sprawl and densification in built areas increases the number of
interbuilding solar reflections. This contributes to over warming in urban environments–a …

This work presents the preliminary stages of a wider study aiming at assessing the potentials
of retro-reflective (RR) materials to mitigate urban heat island effects. Th study herewith …

The solar radiation has a great effect on the thermal environment of regional buildings, and
reflective coatings can increase the amount of solar reflectance and reduce the solar heat …

Highly-and retro-reflective materials have recently been investigated and proposed as a
new urban coating solution to reduce the so-called urban heat island effect. The present …

The study deals with the application of retro-reflective (RR) and angular-selective retro-
reflective (AS-RR) coatings on surfaces (ie the street ground and the south-exposed façade) …

Retro-reflectivity is a promising surface capability, which has attracted the interest of
researchers for building applications in order to counteract Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects …