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A. Mahdavi:
"Approaches to the Evaluation and Mitigation of the Urban Microclimate";
Keynote Lecture: CCSH15 - Climate Change and sustainable Heritage 2015, Graz (invited); 2015-02-18 - 2015-02-20; in: "CCSH15 - Climate Change and sustainable Heritage 2015", J. Meuwissen, C.K. Hofbauer, E. Madadi-Kandjani (ed.); (2015), Paper ID Keynote, 25 pages.

Cities are complex entities: A multitude of environmental, economic, and social disciplines, approaches, and studies are needed to better understand the intricate life and evolution of structures we call cities. In this context, the present keynote paper focuses on the challenging and consequential topic of the urban microclimate. In recent history, cities have grown in number and size, emerging thus as massive anthropogenic interventions in the planetary environment. The urban microclimate with its temporal and spatial variance can significantly influence the performance of buildings and the well-being of the city dwellers. In light of this, there is a critical need for a deeper understanding of the tightly intertwined feedback loops between the local, regional, and global climate and their consequences for urbanism.

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Urban microclimate, Urban heat islands, Microclimatic variance