Urban heat islands (UHIs) exert a substantially negative impact on human health and urban
sustainability. The role of two-dimensional (2D) landscape patterns in UHIs are well …

Urban morphology significantly affects the urban thermal environment. Seasonal impacts of
two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) urban morphology on land surface …

Summer increasingly gets hotter, which has become a common problem that threats human
settlement environment and hinders urban sustainable development. The impacts of urban …

Optimizing the built environment helps alleviate the adverse impact of extreme heat on
public health and sustainable urban development. To this end, this study measured the daily …

Urban morphology has significant effects on local thermal comfort. To investigate the
correlation between thermal condition and urban spatial configuration, 24 typical scenarios …

Due to the scarcity of air temperature (T a) observations, urban heat studies often rely on
satellite-derived Land Surface Temperature (LST) to characterise the near-surface thermal …

Excessive heat in urban areas affects thermal comfort and livability. In order to improve local
thermal environment, correlations patterns between urban features and land surface …

With more record-breaking skyscrapers built in big cities around the world, horizontal urban
sprawl no longer dominates the research of urbanization rather than the vertical growth of …

Abstract Architecture influences the design of urban landscapes and hence plays an
important role in the regulation of urban thermal environment. Studies on the correlation …

Rapid urbanisation and climate change are two major trends in Africa in need of further
investigation. In this paper, the urban thermal environment and vegetation abundance in …