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

Open Access Published by Birkhäuser 2022

Coping with Urban Climates

Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance

Edited by: Sascha Roesler , Madlen Kobi and Lorenzo Stieger

Volume 2 in the series Klima Polis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035624243

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About this book

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.

Main outcome of a six-year research project on "architecture and urban climates," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Based on ethnographic inquiries and visual mappings

Author / Editor information

Prof. Dr. Sascha Roesler, Dr. Madlen Kobi, Dr. Lorenzo Stieger, Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland

Reviews

„In einer dicht recherchierten Analyse widmet er [Sascha Roesler] sich aktuellen wie historischen Ansätzen zur Klimaforschung innerhalb der Architektur und Stadtplanung.“ (Ariann Schwarz in: https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-Zwei_Baende_aus_der_Reihe_Klima_Polis_8049556.html (03.01.2023))

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„Coping with Urban Climates offers new transdisciplinary frameworks and methodologies for analysing urban climates that will be useful for urban designers, architects, climatologists and anyone interested in the ways in which the climate affects our cities and collective urban futures." (Noa Levin in: Urban Studies, 2023/5, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980231168300)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Maps Open Access Download PDF	4
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	21
Preface Sascha Roesler Open Access Download PDF	23
Coping with Urban Climates An Introduction Sascha Roesler Open Access Download PDF	25
I Urban Climates
Geneva (Switzerland): The Architecturalization of Water Ecologies On the Integration of Energy Transition and Climate Adaptation Lorenzo Stieger Open Access Download PDF	43
Santiago de Chile: The Standardization of Indoor–Outdoor Transitions On the Dynamics between Public Spaces and Climate Control Lionel Epiney Open Access Download PDF	71
Chongqing (People’s Republic of China): The Electrification of the Urban Fabric On Governing the Built Environment’s Seasonality Madlen Kobi Open Access Download PDF	97
Cairo (Egypt): The Domestication of Urban Heat On the Everyday Production of Microclimates Dalila Ghodbane Open Access Download PDF	119
II Thermal Governance
Architecture and Thermal Governance Six Components Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi and Lorenzo Stieger Open Access Download PDF	147
New Urban Climate Protocols Visualizing Socio-climatic Differences Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan, Lionel Epiney and Dalila Ghodbane Open Access Download PDF	161
Appendices
Endnotes Open Access Download PDF	211
References Open Access Download PDF	219
Index Open Access Download PDF	227
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	233
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	236
Illustration Credits Open Access Download PDF	237

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects, urbanists, students, librairies, climate researchers
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 50
- Coloured Illustrations: 70
Keywords: Urbanism; micro climate; 21st century; Geneva; Cairo; Santiago de Cile; Chongqing

eBook

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783035624243

Hardcover

Published: June 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783035624212