Environmental high performance urban open spaces paving: Experimentations in Urban Barriera (Turin, Italy)

Energy Procedia

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 669-674

  Mazzotta, Alessandro ^a   Mutani, Guglielmina ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Outdoor microclimate; Outdoor thermal comfort; Paving materials; Thermal comfort indexes; Thermal sensation

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PAVEMENTS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS; MICROCLIMATE MONITORING; OUTDOOR MICROCLIMATE; OUTDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; PROCEDURAL ASPECTS; PROCESS OF IMPROVEMENT; THERMAL SENSATIONS; URBAN REDEVELOPMENT;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84962557785     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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