Title & Author:

Coping with urban climates : comparative perspectives on architecture and thermal governance / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger (eds.).

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2022]
©2022

Description:

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, maps, plans ; 29 cm.

Series:

KLIMA POLIS ; vol. 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface / Sascha Roesler -- Coping with urban climates: an introduction / Sascha Roesler -- Urban climates : Geneva (Switzerland) : The architecturalization of water ecologies: on the integration of energy transition and climate adaptation / Lorenzo Stieger -- Santiago de Chile : The standarization of indoor-outdoor transitions: on the dynamics between public spaces and climate control / Lionel Epiney -- Chongqing (People's Republic of China) : The electrification of the urban fabric: on governing the built environment's seasonality / Madlen Kobi -- Cairo (Egypt) : The domestication of urban heat: on everyday production of microclimates / Dalia Ghodbane -- Thermal governance : Architecture and thermal governance: six components / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger ; New urban climate protocols: visualizing socio-climatic differences / Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Adrian Ehrat; with the support of Lionel Epiney and Dalila Ghodbane.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9783035624212 hardcover
3035624216 hardcover

Subject:

Architecture and climate.
Urban ecological design.
Architecture et climat.
Écoconception urbaine.

Added entries:

Roesler, Sascha, 1971- editor.
Kobi, Madlen, 1982- editor.
Stieger, Lorenzo, editor.

Comparative perspectives on architecture and thermal governance

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319186
Call No.: 319186
Copy: 1
Status: Available