Feng Yang

The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of climate-responsive urban design strategies and tactics for effectively mitigating the negative impacts of deteriorating urban thermal environments on pedestrian thermal comfort, outdoor air quality and building energy consumption. It also reviews the latest advances in urban climate research, with a focus on the challenges in terms of outdoor space comfort, health, and livability posed by the high-rise and high-density development in emerging Asian megacities, and proposes an integrated framework in response to the pressing need for microclimate research. It then presents a series of studies on high-rise residential and non-residential urban neighborhoods and districts based on instrumented field study, validated numerical simulation, and spatial analysis using a GIS platform. The book includes extensive, valuable experimental data presented in a clear and concise manner. The thermal atlas methodology based on empirical modeling and spatial analysis described is a useful climate-responsive design tool for both urban designer and architects. As such, the book is of particular interest to researchers, professionals, and graduate students in the fields of urban planning and design, building science and urban climatology.

The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of climate-responsive urban design strategies and tactics for effectively mitigating the negative impacts of deteriorating urban thermal environments on pedestrian thermal comfort, outdoor air quality and building energy consumption. It also reviews the latest advances in urban climate research, with a focus on the challenges in terms of outdoor space comfort, health, and livability posed by the high-rise and high-density development in emerging Asian megacities, and proposes an integrated framework in response to the pressing need for microclimate research. It then presents a series of studies on high-rise residential and non-residential urban neighborhoods and districts based on instrumented field study, validated numerical simulation, and spatial analysis using a GIS platform. The book includes extensive, valuable experimental data presented in a clear and concise manner. The thermal atlas methodology based on empirical modeling and spatial analysis described is a useful climate-responsive design tool for both urban designer and architects. As such, the book is of particular interest to researchers, professionals, and graduate students in the fields of urban planning and design, building science and urban climatology.

This book systematically investigates the depositional process and reservoir characteristics of organic-rich shales, including (1) The types and development mechanisms of organic-rich shales under ancient ocean and climatic backgrounds.

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL). It examines the handshape inventory of SHSL in terms of its underlying featural specifications, phonetic realization and phonological processes such as assimilation, epenthesis, deletion, coalescence, non-dominant hand spread and weak drop. The authors define the role of the prosodic hierarchy in SHSL and analyze the linguistic functions of non-manual markers. This systematic investigation not only contributes to our understanding of SHSL itself, but also informs typological research on sign languages in the world.

Im Zuge der Urbanisierung wird die Stadtbevölkerung bis 2050 weltweit um 2,5 Milliarden Menschen zunehmen. In China, dem Land mit der größten Stadtbevölkerung der Welt, wanderten bis 2016 136 Millionen vom Land in die Städte. An diesem Fall wird gezeigt, wie sich die Unterbringung entwickelte: auf der Ebene der städtebaulichen Eingliederung, der Wohnumgebung, der Gebäude und Wohneinheit. Das Wohnen der Arbeitsmigranten wird im Kontext von Chinas einzigartigem Hukou-System sowie seiner Boden- und Wohnpolitik analysiert. Typische Fälle in Peking, Shanghai und Guangzhou werden auf der Grundlage neu erstellter Typologie ihrer Wohnformen untersucht. Als Methode wird neben Befragen, Messen, Dokumentieren die teilnehmende Beobachtung benutzt. Der Autor wohnte in einer Art „Selbstversuch“ in den untersuchten Typen. Empfehlungen beziehen sich auf politische, stadtplanerische und bauliche Maßnahmen für bestehende sowie neu zu bauende Wohnräume für Arbeitsmigranten. China ist ein besonderer Fall - seine Lösungsansätze können den internationalen Diskurs anreichern, der über die Unterbringung der weltweiten Migrantenströme geführt wird.