Thermal comfort and psychological adaptation as a guide for designing urban spaces

By M. Nikolopoulou, K. Steemers. 2003

930 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Building and Construction

1. Neveen Hamza
2. M. Elnabawi
3. Jan Carmeliet
4. S. Thorsson
5. B. Blocken

In Environmental Engineering

1. B. Blocken
2. Neveen Hamza
3. M. Elnabawi
4. Wei David Liu
5. Jan Carmeliet
6. Qingyan Chen
7. S. Thorsson
8. Thijs Defraeye

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. Qingyan Chen
2. Giovanni Sanesi
3. Raffaele Lafortezza
4. Neveen Hamza
5. G. Carrus
6. B. Blocken
7. M. Elnabawi

Citations in the corpus

• Pedestrian Wind Environment around Buildings: Literature Review and Practical Examples (2004, background): “On the other hand, a considerable amount of research on outdoor thermal comfort has been performed recently [92–101].”
• Benefits and well-being perceived by people visiting green spaces in periods of heat stress. (2009, background): “Although the correlation between these variables is weak, results suggest that green spaces offering shaded locations and accessible water could benefit people and, at some extent, alleviate symptoms of thermal discomfort under heat stress conditions (Nikolopoulou and Steemers, 2003).”
• Instruments and methods in outdoor thermal comfort studies – The need for standardization (2014, background): “In the outdoor environment psychological mechanisms may contribute to as much as 50 % of the variance between objective and subjective evaluation of thermal comfort [24].”
• A comprehensive review of thermal comfort studies in urban open spaces. (2020, background): “Nikolopoulou and Steemers (2003) referred to physiological adaptation as physiological acclimatization and asserted that it is important only under extreme environmental conditions.”
• Behavioural Perspectives of Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Areas: A Critical Review (2019, methodology): “Nevertheless, the two common methods used for thermal satisfaction assessment—whether via the heat balance approach [50], the adaptive thermal comfort model [83,102,103], or both combined—have failed to provide realistic and context-specific data on thermal satisfaction [25].”