Design with Microclimate
The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2010
- Category
- Landscape, Urban & Land Use Planning
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781597267397
- Publish Date
- Sep 2010
- List Price
- $75.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781597267403
- Publish Date
- Sep 2010
- List Price
- $49.95
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Description
Robert Brown helps us see that a "thermally comfortable microclimate" is the very foundation of well-designed and well-used outdoor places. Brown argues that as we try to minimize human-induced changes to the climate and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels—as some areas become warmer, some cooler, some wetter, and some drier, and all become more expensive to regulate—good microclimate design will become increasingly important. In the future, according to Brown, all designers will need to understand climatic issues and be able to respond to their challenges.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Robert D. Brown is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the senior author of Microclimatic Landscape Design and author of Landscape Assessment for Planning and Design.
