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A specialist in urban effects on climate, particularly the heat island effect, Iain D Stewart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Here he describes how the emergence of ‘borderless’, ‘patchwork’ and ‘polynucleated’ cities has led climatologists to develop a new classification system of urban landscapes. The system divides cities into local climate zones (LCZs) according to their surface structure, cover, fabric and metabolism.
A specialist in urban effects on climate, particularly the heat island effect, Iain D Stewart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Here he describes how the emergence of ‘borderless’, ‘patchwork’ and ‘polynucleated’ cities has led climatologists to develop a new classification system of urban landscapes. The system divides cities into local climate zones (LCZs) according to their surface structure, cover, fabric and metabolism.
Local Climates of the City
Stewart, Iain D (author)
Architectural Design ; 83 ; 100-105
2013-07-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
‘systems’ framework , cycles of energy , ‘canopy layer’ , urban and rural climates , climatological significance: structure, cover, fabric, and metabolism , Professor Tim Oke , The Climate of London , Luke Howard , mass and momentum , ‘urban climate zones’ (UCZs) , University of British Columbia , urban heat island (UHI) , ‘urban terrain zones’ (UTZs). , cause‐and‐effect linkages
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