{"title":"Citizens and Climate","authors":"R. Leggero","doi":"10.1515/9783035615159-044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035615159-044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137057,"journal":{"name":"The Urban Microclimate as Artifact","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130190489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heating and Cooling the Desert","authors":"Matthias Brunner","doi":"10.1515/9783035615159-152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035615159-152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137057,"journal":{"name":"The Urban Microclimate as Artifact","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131242137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Microclimates","authors":"S. Tavares","doi":"10.1515/9783035615159-082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035615159-082","url":null,"abstract":"While indoors microclimates are readily controllable by air conditioning, urban outdoor microclimates are often accepted as public open spaces with innate characteristics. There are, however, psychological factors and cultural expectations that influence microclimate experience in open spaces (Lenzholzer 2015). As public open spaces are essentially congregational social spaces, social activity and accessibility influence adaptation to the thermal conditions of the urban environment. The challenge, therefore, is to identify the place-based and local sociocultural values that shape the use of public urban microclimates. Based upon the theory that physical and social landscapes co-constitute urban microclimates, this chapter approaches people’s response to outdoor microclimates as a product of regional context. Thus, I consider the landscape to be one of the variables integrated into regional identities and responses to climate. The general adaptive capacity concept refers to the ability of systems and people to cope with external stress factors (Denevan 1983). Adaptive capacity is used here as the capacity of humans to adjust to the existing thermal environment, even if the local conditions are outside of the scientifically-defined comfort zone (Olgyay 1963) . In addition to the physiological perceptions, microclimates are embedded in socio-cultural practices and meanings.","PeriodicalId":137057,"journal":{"name":"The Urban Microclimate as Artifact","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125946478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}