Tropical Urban Heat Islands: Climate, Buildings and Greenery Book

List of abbreviations vii

Part I 1

1 Tropical climate 3

2 Tropical buildings 17

3 Tropical plants 35

4 Climate and buildings 51

5 Buildings and plants 68

6 Plants and climate 82

7 The plants-climate-buildings model 96

Part II 105

8 Case studies in Singapore 107

I UHI measurement 109

II Urban parks 132

III Trees in housing developments and industrial areas 148

IV Intensive rooftop gardens 165

V Extensive rooftop gardens 180

VI Vertical landscaping 204

VII Green experiments 227

Index 255