BECKERS , Benoit

This special issue of Graphical Models incorporates a selection of papers presented at the recent International Conference on Urban Physics held in Quito - Galápagos, 25 September–2 October 2016, Ecuador. The conference was intended to provide a major international forum for exchanging research ideas and significant practical results related to...

Built-up areas and more particularly buildings are important energy-consumers. If, in France, energetic regulation and principles of town planning intended to improve the energy efficiency do exist, we will show the limits of the methods of calculation for solar radiation and the necessity of making solar simulations on a realistic urban model....