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The influence of the Level of Detail (LOD) and the surrounding materials reflectance on the assessment of the photovoltaic potential in urban environments

Stéphane Bonjour, Jérémie Stoeckli

In order to assess the photovoltaic potential of a building in an urban environment, the creation of a 3D model is necessary. However, there are many different levels of detail (LOD) to model a building. In this report, we compared the three main LODs acco ...

2016

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

Since the second half of the XX century, the way new urban areas have risen next to the ancient/traditional parts of cities has been vastly unsystematic, often altering the original natural landscape and/or urban morphology significantly. This has sometime ...

2016

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot

Cities can play a key role in mitigating climate change impacts, as they represent two thirds of the world’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a model-based approach to support cities in the challenge of including energy ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG2016

Visibility of Building Exposed Surfaces for the Potential Application of Solar Panels: A Photometric Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Christian Roecker, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Urban areas are facing a growing deployment of solar technologies on the built exposed surfaces such as roofs and façades. This transformation often occurs without consideration of the needed architectural quality, which depends on the context sensitivity ...

F. Biljecki and V. Tourre2016

Assessing the impact of contemporary urbanization on bioclimatic features of historic architecture through a two-step simulation process

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle, Parag Rastogi, Hélène Yvette Claudine Monari, Guillaume Charles Johan Rouff soit Rueff

The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic understanding, through simulation-based assessment, of how contemporary urban planning affects the bioclimatic features of existing historic architecture. An emblematic early 20th century Brazilian building, ...

2016

Large-eddy simulation of flow and scalar dispersion in rural-to-urban transition regions

Fernando Porté Agel, Wai Chi Cheng

Large-eddy simulations (LES) are performed to simulate the flow and scalar transport in rural-to-urban transition regions. The LES framework is first validated with wind-tunnel experimental data of scalar dispersion within and above a staggered array of cu ...

Elsevier2016

Physical and economic consequences of sea-level rise: A coupled GIS and CGE analysis under uncertainties

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Santosh Ram Joshi

This paper develops a modelling framework that links GEMINI-E3, a multi-regional, multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model with a cost-benefit analysis approach at local level using geographical information system tools to assess the physical an ...

Springer Verlag2016

Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Giovanni Colavizza

Marvel et al. [12] recently argued that the pre-modern contact world was physically and, by set inclusion, socially not small-world. Since the Black Death and similar plagues used to spread in well-defined waves, the argument goes, the underlying contact n ...

Springer International Publishing2016

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Urban area

The influence of the Level of Detail (LOD) and the surrounding materials reflectance on the assessment of the photovoltaic potential in urban environments

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

Visibility of Building Exposed Surfaces for the Potential Application of Solar Panels: A Photometric Model

A framework for evaluating urban land use mix from crowd-sourcing data

Assessing the impact of contemporary urbanization on bioclimatic features of historic architecture through a two-step simulation process

The energy transition – an integrative analysis

Large-eddy simulation of flow and scalar dispersion in rural-to-urban transition regions

Physical and economic consequences of sea-level rise: A coupled GIS and CGE analysis under uncertainties

Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

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Epidemics in Venice: On the Small or Large Nature of the Pre-modern World

Large-eddy simulation of flow and scalar dispersion in rural-to-urban transition regions

Visibility of Building Exposed Surfaces for the Potential Application of Solar Panels: A Photometric Model

Establishing links for the planning of sustainable districts

Assessing the bioclimatic features of historic architecture in contemporary cities

The influence of the Level of Detail (LOD) and the surrounding materials reflectance on the assessment of the photovoltaic potential in urban environments

A framework for evaluating urban land use mix from crowd-sourcing data

Assessing the impact of contemporary urbanization on bioclimatic features of historic architecture through a two-step simulation process

The energy transition – an integrative analysis

Physical and economic consequences of sea-level rise: A coupled GIS and CGE analysis under uncertainties