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Santamouris, M. (2007). Heat island research in Europe – State of the art. Advances
in Building Energy Research, 1, 123–150.
Samonà, G. (1980). Come ricominciare. Il territorio della città in estensione secondo una nuova forma di pianificazione urbanistica [How to start over. The
extended city area according to a new form of urban planning]. Parametro, 90,
15–16.
Shahmohamadi, P., Cubasch, U., Sodoudi, S., & Che-Ani, A. I. (2012). Mitigating
the Urban Heat Island. Effects in Teheran Metropolitan Area, Chapter 11,
pp. 282–283. In Air pollution – A comprehensive prospective. Intech.
Selicato, F., & Rotondo, F. (2010). Progettazione Urbanistica Teorie e Tecniche
[Urban design theories and techniques]. Milan: McGraw-Hill.
Heat Island effect in the Teheran metropolitan area, Ch. 11 of Air pollution – A
comprehensive perspective. Croatia, Edited by Budi Haryanto.
Wong, N. H., & Chen, Y. (2009). Tropical Urban Heat Island: Climate, buildings
and greenery. London/New York: Taylor & Francis Press.
Focus A: Energy and Urban Form
Filippo Magni
Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments,
IUAV University of Venice,
S.Croce, 1957, 30135, Venice, Italy
fmagni@iuav.it
Keywords Urban form, Energy planning, Design and UHI, Climate change
Nowadays, the population which can be considered an urban population
exceeds 50 % of the total with areas where the percentage reaches 80 %. This
process of urbanization of the population, combined with the potential impacts
of climate change induced by the anthropogenic component (IPCC 2007),
provides a new impetus to efforts to understand how the forms, functions and
resources interact within urban environments. In some cities, energy consumption per capita has grown at approximately the same rate as spatial
growth (Baynes and Bai 2009). From a point of view of urban metabolism,
energy therefore represents one of the most critical resource flows for the life
of a city, since it is a primary factor in supporting physical and economic
systems (Alberti 1994). Considering then that the growing global contribution
to GHG emissions of cities (Bai 2007), addressing global climate change
bringing it down to an urban level acquires strategic interest, as it provides
greater effectiveness of intervention: energy consumption, urban form, density
and morphology if correctly associated, may provide the opportunity to
address the issue of climate locally. Much of the literature available, for example,
Williams et al. (2000), Jenks and Burgess (2000) and Foley (2005), Oke (2006),
(continued)
F. Musco et al.
Santamouris, M. (2007). Heat island research in Europe – State of the art. Advances
in Building Energy Research, 1, 123–150.
Samonà, G. (1980). Come ricominciare. Il territorio della città in estensione secondo una nuova forma di pianificazione urbanistica [How to start over. The
extended city area according to a new form of urban planning]. Parametro, 90,
15–16.
Shahmohamadi, P., Cubasch, U., Sodoudi, S., & Che-Ani, A. I. (2012). Mitigating
the Urban Heat Island. Effects in Teheran Metropolitan Area, Chapter 11,
pp. 282–283. In Air pollution – A comprehensive prospective. Intech.
Selicato, F., & Rotondo, F. (2010). Progettazione Urbanistica Teorie e Tecniche
[Urban design theories and techniques]. Milan: McGraw-Hill.
Heat Island effect in the Teheran metropolitan area, Ch. 11 of Air pollution – A
comprehensive perspective. Croatia, Edited by Budi Haryanto.
Wong, N. H., & Chen, Y. (2009). Tropical Urban Heat Island: Climate, buildings
and greenery. London/New York: Taylor & Francis Press.
Focus A: Energy and Urban Form
Filippo Magni
Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments,
IUAV University of Venice,
S.Croce, 1957, 30135, Venice, Italy
fmagni@iuav.it
Keywords Urban form, Energy planning, Design and UHI, Climate change
Nowadays, the population which can be considered an urban population
exceeds 50 % of the total with areas where the percentage reaches 80 %. This
process of urbanization of the population, combined with the potential impacts
of climate change induced by the anthropogenic component (IPCC 2007),
provides a new impetus to efforts to understand how the forms, functions and
resources interact within urban environments. In some cities, energy consumption per capita has grown at approximately the same rate as spatial
growth (Baynes and Bai 2009). From a point of view of urban metabolism,
energy therefore represents one of the most critical resource flows for the life
of a city, since it is a primary factor in supporting physical and economic
systems (Alberti 1994). Considering then that the growing global contribution
to GHG emissions of cities (Bai 2007), addressing global climate change
bringing it down to an urban level acquires strategic interest, as it provides
greater effectiveness of intervention: energy consumption, urban form, density
and morphology if correctly associated, may provide the opportunity to
address the issue of climate locally. Much of the literature available, for example,
Williams et al. (2000), Jenks and Burgess (2000) and Foley (2005), Oke (2006),
(continued)
F. Musco et al.