Urban Climate and Urban Design

Due to climate change and urbanization, urban climate change is increasingly prominent with significantly environmental, economic, social, and health consequences. Addressing climate-related risks, threats and disasters in cities to a significant extent means creating resilient, healthy, safe and inclusive built environments. Such an assumption is much truer since cities are the main human settlements of human beings. Typically, urban design is an implementable and tangible pathway to practically deal with the city-climate interactions, while there should be a large transformation from unsustainable urban design patterns towards sustainable ones.

Urban Climate and Urban Design is a comprehensive collection of theoretical perspectives and global case study examples focused on three core areas of (i) urban climate monitoring, assessing and forecasting, (ii) mitigation and adaptation strategies, (iii) advanced and emerging design models and tools, and (iv) action plans and policy formulation. This edited volume provides theoretical and methodological references for urban climate research and generates practical implications for mitigation and adaptation capacity improvement.

This book will be of interest to a range of researchers from earth and planetary sciences and environmental sciences to engineering, architecture, and urban planning. Beyond them, this book will enlighten policy makers, practitioners, and developers how to properly regulate urban climate through design interventions. We believe this book is promising to narrow the gap in the transition towards climate-resilient cities, and enhance the understanding of new ideas, methods, strategies, and policies.

Bao-Jie HE is a Professor of Urban Climate and Sustainable Built Environment at School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the leader of the Centre for Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Cities, Chongqing University. Baojie is also the Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Queensland, Australia, and the Research Fellow at Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability, Hiroshima University, Japan. Baojie He was a Postdoc Research Fellow, Research Associate, PhD researcher, at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Baojie is working on the technologies of Cool Cities and Communities and Net Zero Carbon Built Environment. Baojie has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers in high-ranking and delivered more than 40 invited talks in reputable conferences. Baojie has a H-index of 51 (Scopus). Baojie has been involved in several large research projects on energy and built environment in Australia. Baojie has been invited to act Topic Editor-in-Chief, Leading Guest Editor, Associate Editor, Editorial Board Member, Conference Chair, Sessional Chair, Scientific Committee of a variety of reputable international journals and conferences. Baojie received the Highly Cited Researcher Title (Clarivate) in 2022 and 2023, the Sustainability Young Investigator Award in 2022, the Green Talents Award (Germany) in 2021, and National Scholarship for Outstanding Foreign Students (China) in 2019. Baojie was ranked as one of the Single-year & Career 100,000 global scientists (2%) by the Stanford University in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Yupeng WANG is a Professor and the Associate Dean at the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. He has the working experience as an urban planner in NIKKEN SEKKEI, the largest architecture and planning firm in Japan, and the research experience in the Heat Island Group at the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Concordia University for sustainable urban planning, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. He has a wide range of research experiences including environmental modeling and evaluation, sustainable urban planning, urban vegetation and climate change mitigation, and published more than 30 journal papers. Because of his interdisciplinary educational background, research experiences and work experiences, he has received a “Hundred Talents Project” of Shaanxi Province, China in 2017, “Person of the Year” from Scientific Chinese magazine in 2018, “AIUE-O Prize” from Asia Institute of Urban Environment in 2019, and “Award of Excellence Young Scholar” from The International Society of the Built Environment in 2020. He currently serves as an Editorial Board Member for Indoor and Built Environment, Guest Editor of Buildings, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Sustainability.

Ali CHESHMEHZANGI is the World’s top 2% field leader, recognised by Stanford University. He is a Professor and Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP) at the University of Queensland. He is among the top 30 global scholars in the urban sustainability research area. Prior to joining UQ, Ali held several strategic leadership and senior managerial roles, such as Vice-President for International Engagement and Global Partnership, Founding Director/Head of the Center for Innovation in Education and Research, Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Founding Director of the Urban Innovation Lab, Director of a university-wide Teaching and Learning platform, Director of International Research Network for Rural and Urban Development, Head of Research Group for Sustainable Built Environment, co-director of university-wide research priority areas, Director of Center for Sustainable Energy Technologies, and Interim Director of Digital Design Lab. So far, Ali has published over 500 journal papers, articles, conference papers, book chapters, and reports. He also has 33 other academic books, three of which have received awards at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. He also has received international awards and recognition for his research on urban resilience studies and sustainability research, as well as a Vice-Chancellor’s award for his impactful contribution to higher education. Ali is also globally known for his extended work on urban sustainability research, and particular as the Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Urban Sustainability (US) book series.