Urban heat islands (UHI) are one of the unequivocal effects ongoing process climate change: anthropized areas suffer extreme events that affect human perception comfort. This study investigated road pavements as a passive countermeasure by comparing air temperature (AT) and predicted mean vote (PMV) for different surface materials used to pave historical square in Rome, Italy. The software ENVI...

With the continuous improvement of urban economic development and modernization, number motor vehicles has shown a sharp increase in recent years. At same time, construction public parking lots is very backward, spaces are seriously insufficient, leading to increasingly serious problems, such as traffic congestion insufficient spaces. The management mode lot which not conducive efficiency may h...

A low impact (dispersed) design demonstrated how small alterations to parking lots can reduce runoff and pollutant loads. A whole basin approach utilized the entire watershed for stormwater management. Storm runoff was treated as soon as rain hit the ground by routing it through a network of swales, strands and finally into a small wet detention pond. When the volume of water from all the diffe...