Coping with urban climates
comparative perspectives on architecture and thermal governance
Additional information
Authors
Roesler S.,
Kobi M.,
Stieger L. F.
Type
Book
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban environments.
Keywords
Urbanism, Micro climate, 21st century, Geneva, Cairo, Santiago de Cile, Chongqing
Publisher
Birkhäuser
Diffusion
License
CC BY-NC-ND
Visibility
Public
Status open access
Gold
