Name: Coping with Urban Climates
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Hatte die Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts die Kontrolle des Gebäudeklima zur Hauptaufgabe erklärt, so muss die Architektur im 21. Jahrhundert den Umgang mit dem Stadtklima lernen. Städtische Hitze und Luftverschmutzung gilt es in die Planung und Gestaltung einzubeziehen. Basierend auf empirischen Erkenntnissen aus Kairo, Chongqing, Genf und Santiago de Chile verdeutlicht das Buch, dass Materialität und soziale Praktiken, verknüpft mit Raumbeheizung, Siedlungsbegrünung, Straßenausrichtung oder Klimapolitik, das Gewebe zeitgenössischer Stadtklimata bilden. Die Publikation verbindet soziokulturelle und meteorologische Daten. Sie plädiert für eine neue Art der "Thermal Governance", die die Wechselwirkung von klimatischen und sozioökonomischen Phänomenen in zeitgenössischen Städten berücksichtigt.

While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban environments.

„In einer dicht recherchierten Analyse widmet er [Sascha Roesler] sich aktuellen wie historischen Ansätzen zur Klimaforschung innerhalb der Architektur und Stadtplanung.“ (Ariann Schwarz in: <A href="https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-Zwei_Baende_aus_der_Reihe_Klima_Polis_8049556.html">https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-Zwei_Baende_aus_der_Reihe_Klima_Polis_8049556.html</A> (03.01.2023)) *** „Coping with Urban Climates offers new transdisciplinary frameworks and methodologies for analysing urban climates that will be useful for urban designers, architects, climatologists and anyone interested in the ways in which the climate affects our cities and collective urban futures." (Noa Levin in: Urban Studies, 2023/5, <A href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980231168300">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980231168300</A>)

Urbanismus; Mikroklima; 21. Jahrhundert; Genf; Santiago de Chile; Kairo; Chongqing

Urbanism; micro climate; 21st century; Geneva; Cairo; Santiago de Cile; Chongqing

Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design

Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance

Coping with Urban Climates

Prof. Dr. Sascha Roesler, Dr. Madlen Kobi, Dr. Lorenzo Stieger, Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Schweiz

Prof. Dr. Sascha Roesler, Dr. Madlen Kobi, Dr. Lorenzo Stieger, Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Switzerland

<ul> <li> Resultate eines sechsjährigen Forschungsprojekts über "Architektur und Stadtklima", das vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds finanziert wurde </li> <li> Basierend auf ethnografischen Untersuchungen und visuellen Kartierungen </li> </ul>

<UL> <LI>Main outcome of a six-year research project on "architecture and urban climates," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. </LI> <LI>Based on ethnographic inquiries and visual mappings </LI></UL>

 While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to be included in planning and design. Based on empirical realities in Cairo, Chongqing, Geneva and Santiago de Chile, the book underlines that the materiality and social practices attached to room heating, compound greening, street alignment or climate policies together form the tissue for contemporary urban climates. It interweaves socio-cultural with meteorological data and pioneers the new concept of "thermal governance" by linking architectural and technological as well as legal and economic dimensions of climate control in urban environments.   Main outcome of a six-year research project on "architecture and urban climates," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.  Based on ethnographic inquiries and visual mappings 

 While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope w

Coping with Urban Climates

Comparative Perspectives on Architecture and Thermal Governance

Edited by: Sascha Roesler, Madlen Kobi, Lorenzo Stieger

Volume 2 in the series Klima Polis