A “Local Climate Zone” based approach to urban planning in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Urban Climate

Volumn 23, Issue , 2018, Pages 188-203

  Perera, N G R ^a   Emmanuel, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate sensitive design; Local climate zone; Urban planning; Warm humid tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007490333     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2016.11.006     Document Type: Article

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