A review of breathable residential areas in Xi'an of China

  • Meng Zhen
  • , Dian Zhou
  • , Yuanping He
  • , Chuck Wah Yu
  • , Ying Liu
  • , Qi Dong

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Abstract

Northern cities in China are experiencing severe haze pollution. How to improve the urban ventilation capacity by improving the layout of urban space is a problem that China urgently needs to solve. The paper reviews the urban environmental problems, research methods of wind environment in residential areas, wind profile, coupling mechanism of spatial patterns of urban residential areas and wind environment, so to provide ideas for wind environment improvement in residential areas of Xi’an. At the same time, it provides research methods for the healthy development of cities in the same latitude region in the world.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)58-65
Number of pages8
JournalArchitectural Science Review
Volume62
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jan 2019

Keywords

  • Haze pollution
  • coupling mechanism
  • residential area
  • unmanned aerial vehicle
  • urban form
  • wind environment
  • wind profile

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