Author Description

More than 50% of the world's population now lives in cities. Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about issues and problems unprecedented for policy makers, planners and designers of cities and urban spaces. The book brings together experts of the field on Urban Climatic Mapping to provide the state of the art understanding on how urban climatic knowledge can be made available and utilized by urban planners. The book contains the technology and methodology, and various focuses and approaches of urban climatic map making, it illustrates thee understanding with examples and case studies around the world, and it explains how the urban climatic information can be analysed, interpreted and applied in urban planning. The book attempts to bridge the gap between the sciences of urban climatology and the practice of urban planning. The book will critically evaluate the efforts so far achieved and to chart the way forward for the next stage of the UCMap efforts. The book provides a useful one-stop reference for postgraduates, academics, urban climatologists, wishing to further understand the needs for urban climatic knowledge in city planning; and urban planners and policy makers interested in applying the knowledge to design future sustainable cities and quality urban spaces.