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Coping with Urban Climates: Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance

Coping with Urban Climates: Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance in Franklin, TN

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Coping with Urban Climates: Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance

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Coping with Urban Climates: Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance in Franklin, TN

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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.
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.

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