People in outdoor areas suffer from more heat stress than indoors during warm seasons due
to the lack of shelters or cooling facilities. This problem is pressing with urban heat island …

Urban green infrastructure is critical to sustainable cities and society, especially in rapidly
urbanising developing countries. This paper provides a review of studies on urban greening …

The urban heat island effect has gained attention worldwide. Built environment
characteristics such as sky view factor (SVF) and green view index (GVI) can affect urban …

The urban heat island (UHI) effect is anticipated to be intensified and cause severe damage
to human society under future urbanization and climate change. Due to the complicated …

The previous studies of outdoor thermal comfort mainly focused on the micro-climate
changes caused by urban morphological factors such as street aspect ratio, plot ratio, sky …

Outdoor thermal comfort is significantly relevant to human's quality of life. Thus, it has been
frequently studied by investigators. This study explored people's thermal responses to …

This study was focused on the metropolitan area of Florence in Tuscany (Italy) with the aim
of mapping and evaluating thermal summer diurnal hot-and cool-spots in relation to the …

Along with global climate change and urbanisation, the thermal environment is increasingly
worse in summer, especially (sub) tropical regions. In recent decades, approaches …

Integrated implementation of spatial and climate information is important for urban thermal
environmental optimization. Sky view factor (SVF) is an urban form evaluation index widely …

The urban heat island effect is an increasingly serious problem in urban areas. Previous
studies suggest that spatial variation in the urban land surface temperature (LST) is …