Ventilating Cities

1. Introduction
Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama

2. Sea Breeze Blowing into Urban Areas: Mitigation of the Urban Heat Island Phenomenon
Yoichi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Yoshikado, Ryozo Ooka, Hiroshi Hayami, Hong Huang, Mai V. Khiem

3. Thermal Adaptation Outdoors and the Effect of Wind on Thermal Comfort
Hom Bahadur Rijal

4. Health Risk of Exposure to Vehicular Emissions in Wind-Stagnant Street Canyons
Tomomi Hoshiko, Fumiyuki Nakajima, Tassanee Prueksasit, Kazuo Yamamoto

5. Pollutant Dispersion in an Urban Area
Keisuke Nakao, Shinsuke Kato

6. Legal Regulations for Urban Ventilation
Kyosuke Hiyama, Shinsuke Kato

7. New Criteria for Assessing the Local Wind Environment at the Pedestrian Level and the Applications
Shinsuke Kato, Zhen Bu, Mahmoud Farghaly Bady Mohammed

Keywords: Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urbanism