Performance of Different Urban Design Parameters in Improving Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Health in a Pedestrianized Zone

Abstract

Global climate change and urban heat islands have generated heat stress in summer, which does harm to people’s health. The outdoor public commercial pedestrianized zone has an important role in people’s daily lives, and the utilization of this space is evaluated by their outdoor thermal comfort and health. Using microclimatic monitoring and numerical simulation in a commercial pedestrianized zone in Tai Zhou, China, this study investigates people’s outdoor thermal comfort in extreme summer heat. The final results provide a comprehensive system for assessing how to improve outdoor human thermal health. Under the guidance of this system, local managers can select the most effective strategy to improve the outdoor thermal environment.

ENVI-met Simulations of the Effect of Different Landscape Design Scenarios on Pedestrian Thermal Comfort: Haydar Aliyev Street

“…Efforts are being made to develop planning and design strategies that provide more livable micro-climate conditions for living organisms. Academic studies have experimented with different materials naturally to reduce the effects of UHI These materials include plants (Tan et al, 2016;Irmak et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2019;Ma et al, 2020;Yucekaya and Uslu, 2020), water surface options (Grimm et al, 2008;Wu et al, 2019;Gupta et al, 2019), street orientation and angle studies (Ali-Toudert and Mayer, 2007;Qaid et al, 2016;Yilmaz et al, 2018;Mutlu et al, 2018), roof-vertical gardens (Taleghani et al, 2015), and different ground covering materials (Irmak et al, 2017;Bozdogan et al, 2021). Urban parks have become increasingly important in reducing the effects of UHI.…”

Spatial Heterogeneity and Attribution Analysis of Urban Thermal Comfort in China from 2000 to 2020

“…At present, climate, human activities, and urban characteristics are generally considered to be important factors affecting outdoor thermal comfort [24][25][26]. (3) Exploring the impact of thermal comfort on human activities or urban outdoor space utilization is also an important research direction [27][28][29].…”