Contribution of Landscape Design to Changing Urban Climate Conditions

Urban Biodiversity and Design

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 572-592

  Hagen, Katrin ^a   Stiles, Richard ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Approaches from a landscape architectural point of view; Climate change is taking place; Contribution of landscape design to changing urban climate conditions; Potential lessons from history potential of associative microclimate; Towards a sustainable and diverse urban space planning; Urban climate and climate change; Urban green space and biodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885536480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318654.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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