Landscape interventions in improving thermal comfort in the hot dry city of Damascus, Syria-The example of residential spaces with detached buildings

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-16

  Yahia, Moohammed Wasim ^a   Johansson, Erik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Damascus; Hot dry; Landscape elements; Thermal comfort; Urban design; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; THERMAL COMFORT; VEGETATION;

DAMASCUS; LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS; OUTDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; PERSPECTIVE TAKING; PHYSIOLOGICALLY EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURES; PLANNING REGULATIONS; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN DESIGN;

URBAN PLANNING;

BUILDING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MICROCLIMATE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

DAMASCUS; DIMASHQ [SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC]; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 84898885636     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.014     Document Type: Article

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