Energy use in cities has attracted significant research in recent years. However such a broad
topic inevitably results in number of alternative interpretations of the problem domain and …

Many computational approaches exist to estimate heating and cooling energy demand of
buildings at city scale, but few existing models can explicitly consider every buildings of an …

The urban thermal environment varies not only from its rural surroundings but also within the
urban area due to intra-urban differences in land-use and surface characteristics …

This paper presents an urban canopy and building energy model based on a thermal
network of constant resistances and capacitances. The RC model represents the …

This study evaluated the impact of the urban heat island (UHI) in the Tokyo metropolitan
area on energy consumption in the residential and commercial sectors. Although there are …

The intensification of urban growth and climate change are affecting the energy and thermal
performance of buildings. In recent years, the issue of building resilience to urban heat …

Cities occupy 3% of the surface of the planet, but account for 60–80% of energy
consumption and 75% of carbon emissions. Likewise, buildings consume 35% of the energy …

The present study deals with human thermal comfort, as it is quantified by two well-known
human biometeorological indices, Physiologically Equivalent Temperature (PET) and …

With the increased urbanization in most countries worldwide, the urban heat island (UHI)
effect, referring to the phenomenon that an urban area has higher ambient temperature than …

As residential buildings and urban areas account for a significant proportion of overall
energy consumption, priority should be assigned to this dimension of housing and urban …