Urban Heat Island

Urban Design to Reduce building energy use: Using CFD to inform better placement of buildings

Green building and climate resilience   Roofs and roads

Pavements designed to fight climate change could increase energy consumption in surrounding buildings

The use of reflective and permeable pavements as a potential practice for heat island mitigation and stormwater management 

Parametric study of thermodynamics in the Mediterranean courtyard as a tool for the design of eco-efficient builldings

Seasonal hydroclimatic impacts of Sun Corridor expansion 

Top-of-atmosphere radiative cooling with white-roofs: experimental verification and model-based evaluation

Just add trees: How greening concrete jungles will help us adapt to a warming world  

As net-zero building gains speed, Portland tests the limits  The greenest commercial building in the world

Bright is the new black - multi-yyear performance of high-albedo roofs in an urban climate

New compound could become 'cool blue' for energy efficiency in buildings

Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric Pollution

Dense downtown living more carbon intense due to higher consumption  

Urban 'Heat Island' Effect, White Roofs and Global Warming

Regional climate consequences of large-scale cool roof and photovoltaic array deployment

"Green Routing" Can Cut Car Emissions Without Significantly Slowing Travel Time 

As world goes urban, new focus on role of trees in cities

Do urban 'heat islands' hint at trees of the future?

Mid-Atlantic suburbs in the US can expect an early spring thanks to the heat of the big city

A scenario analysis of the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of a new residential area

Japan's strategy for reducing heat-island effects

Urbanization and heterogeneous surface warming in Eastern China