The effect of urban form and residential cooling energy use in Sacramento, California

Environ. Plann. B Plann. Des.

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 573-593

  Ko, Yekang ^a   Radke, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy use; GIS; Passive solar community design; Tree planting

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDING; COOLING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY USE; GIS; GREENSPACE; LIDAR; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOLAR POWER; TREE PLANTING; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

CALIFORNIA; SACRAMENTO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84906263273     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b12038p     Document Type: Article

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