Minutes Tuesday, 15th of January 2013

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Session Recording and Materials

Seminar theme: Designing Urban Climate Speaker: Lecture by Dr. Sanda Lenzholzer|WUR Wageningen, NL

Seminar Recording:

Further Reading Sanda Lenzholzer’s selected publications on the topic:

  • Lenzholzer, S., and Brown, R.D. (2013, accepted) Climate-Responsive Landscape Architecture Design Education, Journal of Cleaner Production, doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.12.038
  • Lenzholzer, S. (2012) Research and design for thermal comfort in Dutch urban squares, Resources, Conservation & Recycling , 64, pp. 39-48.
  • Ren, C., Spit, T., Lenzholzer, S., Yim, H. L. S., van Hove, B. H., Chen, L., Kupski, S., Burghardt, R., *Katzschner, L. (2012), Urban Climate Map System for Dutch spatial planning, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 18 (1):207-221.
  • Lenzholzer, S. and Wulp, N.Y. (2010) Thermal experience and perception of the built environment in Dutch urban squares. Journal of Urban Design 15 (3), pp. 375-402.
  • Lenzholzer, S. and Koh, J. (2010) Immersed in Microclimatic Space- Microclimate Experience and Perception of Spatial Configurations in Dutch Squares, Landscape and Urban Planning 95 (1-2), pp.1-15.

Other selected publications on the topic:

  • Brown, R. D., Gillespie, T. J., 1995, Microclimatic landscape design : creating thermal comfort and energy efficiency, Wiley, New York [etc.], pp. 193.
  • Littlefair, P. J., 2000, Environmental site layout planning: solar access, microclimate and passive cooling in urban areas, CRC BRE Publications, London, pp. VIII, 151 p;.
  • Stuttgart, A. f. U., 2008, Climate Booklet for Urban Development, Ministry of Economy Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart.

Tasks for the next session

Assignment 2

  • Working group P to complete assignment 2 before December 23
  • Working group N to complete assignment 2 before January 7

Assignment 3

Next Steps

  • complete chapters 1 - 6 of your case study page, please be concise: you do not need to have more than 250 - 300 words per chapter.
  • complete this analytical part (1-6) before December 21 (start of seminar break)
  • after December 21 please concentrate on the adaptation/mitigation measures and scenarios and illustrate it with sketches and drawings.
  • the deadline for this assignment will be on Monday, January 14. For the assessment we will consider the status of this day.
  • In addition, the three presentation slides for the plenary need to be uploaded on January 14 as well. We have added separate section for this on your case study pages. For this you can save your Powerpoint as JPGs and then upload these individual files.

General Issues

  • This wiki has a citation extension installed. Please find more details on how to use this practical function here.
  • add an image and the map to your case study page, details on how to do this are given in the help section if not done yet, please do not overwrite existing files.
  • please consider that copyright applies to both images and texts. Please always cite correctly. Images from other sources (like other webpages) can not be uploaded to this wiki unless you have an admission from the authors or the image is free of copyright (like creative commons). You can also set links to other sites so we can find an image/map/graph you want to refer to.

Preparation for the next session