Computer modelling for sustainable urban design : physical principles, methods and application / Darren Robinson

Part 1: Climate and Comfort 2. The Urban Radiant Environment 3. The Urban Hydrothermal Environment 4. Pedestrian Comfort Part 2: Metabolism 5. Building Modelling 6. Transport Modelling Part 3: Measures and Optimisation of Sustainability 7. Measures of Urban Sustainability 8. Optimisation of Urban Sustainability Part 4: An Eye to the Future 9. Dynamics of Land - Use Change and Growth 10. Conclusions

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modelling and optimisation of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining sustainability as the fitness function to be optimised. It ends with an eye to the future of sustainable urban design and the means available to urban designers and.