Building heights and better ventilated design for high density cities

22nd International Conference, PLEA 2005: Passive and Low Energy Architecture - Environmental Sustainability: The Challenge of Awareness in Developing Societies, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 607-612

  Ng, Edward ^a   Wong, Hyuk Hien ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Urban design; Wind environment

Indexed keywords

AIR VENTILATION; BUILDING HEIGHT; HIGH DENSITY; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIND ENVIRONMENT;

ARCHITECTURE;

AIR;

EID: 84864548025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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