How the findings of urban climatology can be implemented in planning was started in a long-term research project in 2013 at the Future Cities Laboratory of the ETH in Singapore and continued in Switzerland as part of a six-year research grant on the topic of "Architecture and Urban Climate".
The conclusions of this project have now been packaged in two publications. The first volume of this series is intended to stimulate new ways of thinking about the spatial organization of cities by showing the possibilities of climate control at the level of groups of buildings and their surroundings and poses the question of whether the energy supply of urban architecture can still be regarded as a private matter.
Volume 2 is a cross-cultural study of four cities around the world, looking at the multiple relationships between urban climate, architecture and society both inside and outside buildings. Each volume is self-contained, but they complement each other in their assessment of architecture and urban climate from a historical (Volume 1) and a contemporary (Volume 2) perspective.
These two books are the first in a new series published by Birkhäuser entitled CLIMATE POLIS
