Abstract
At the start of the 20th century only about one person in ten lived in a city, but today the proportion
of urban and rural dwellers is approximately equal (United Nation Report, 2005).
Even in a rough estimate of this development the importance of urban space to any society is
undeniable. In this respect the search for the ideal city becomes the primary quest for city
planners, architects and engineers. The development of design towards an ideal city is a part
of a research activity on Urban Environments at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU),
Department of Civil Engineering. The chosen approach shall address issues that derive from
the functional demands in a modern city, its geometry and architectural appearance and from
the effect of urban climate on city life. Before entering a phase of model simulation the relation
between the aforementioned aspects and their relevance to city life will be studied, based
on full-scale registration of urban environment parameters. The collected data and observations
will be used to review existing criteria allowing assessing urban space quality for city
life. The overall aim of our research is to create a holistic method to determines and describe
the value of urban space for city life. The method shall provide both sufficient basic information
to be used by city planners and architects in the early conceptual stage of a development
project and a holistic simulation tool for a detailed analysis of development projects with respect
to urban space quality.
The work presented in this paper is the first step in identifying and understanding the different
factors affecting the human perception of urban space quality. For this purpose the registration
of urban space conditions has been conducted on different locations in the city of
Copenhagen. Furthermore, selected tests on human perception of climatic conditions have
been performed in the newly developed Climatic Wind Tunnel facility (CWT), jointly operated
by DTU and FORCE Technology in Lyngby, Denmark. The conducted work is related
to a Ph.D. project on the integration of numerical simulation methods in the evaluation of urban
space quality.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | International Conference on Wind Engineering |
| Volume | CD-ROM |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| Event | 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 10 Jul 2011 → 15 Jul 2011 Conference number: 13 http://www.icwe13.org/ |
Conference
| Conference | 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering |
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| Number | 13 |
| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Amsterdam |
| Period | 10/07/2011 → 15/07/2011 |
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