Urban waterfront renewal, especially public space improvement, is important for regaining vitality. However, existing studies constrained by sparse and hard-to-access data are hard to explore how changes in spatial elements during renewal would affect Waterfront vitality comprises social represented behaviors economic urban functional facilities. Taking the Maozhou River project China as an exa...

This paper investigates urban bioclimatic interventions in the central area of a coastal medium-sized city in Greece. Two urban blocks typical of the urban fabric of the city center and a neighborhood of 38 urban blocks were selected. Different proposed Bioclimatic Renewal Scenarios were investigated through microclimatic simulations using the micro-scale numerical model, ENVI-met. The simulati...

Modeling thermal comfort provides quantitative evidence and parameters for effective and efficient urban planning, design, and building construction particularly in a dense and narrow inner city, which has become one of many concerns for sustainable urban development. This paper aims to develop geometric and mathematical models of wind and thermal comfort and use them to examine the impacts of ...