The impact of built environment characteristics on metropolitans energy consumption: An example of greater cairo metropolitan region

Buildings

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Osman, Taher ^a,b   Divigalpitiya, Prasanna ^a   Osman, Mustafa M ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cairo University Campus   (Egypt)

^c FAYOUM UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Climate change; Developing countries; Energy consumption; Mixed land use; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976276951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20755309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/buildings6020012     Document Type: Article

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