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Abstract:
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The urban climate is understood as a modification resulting from and introduced in the environment
by its urban structure and by the human activities that occur in cities. Its contextualization related to
the occupation and planning of urban space leads to new climate patterns, which can transform the
environment in which cities are inserted and the thermal comfort of populations. Once the urban
climate is modified, it has consequences both on the energy performance of constructions and on
environmental issues inherent to the development of urban centers arising from both civil construction
and disorderly urban expansion. According to the field of research that studies and evaluates these
issues, energy efficiency and environmental performance are directly linked to climate factors, and
their improvement provides for a multidisciplinarity between the understanding of the urban climate,
human action, energy sustainability and the climate phenomena to bring about a transformation in
city and construction projects with the common objective of effectively improving the problems arising
from these interactions. |
