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Table 19.3.1 The outdoor spaces improvement procedure.

Climatic
conditions

Survey
methodology

Comfort
indices Region Findings Reference

Crete Mediterranean Measurements of

temperature,
relative humidity
and wind speed.
Focus on shaded
areas by vegetation.

DI, ET The addition of

8 trees in an
area of 100m 2
can reduce the
temperature for
up to 3.1 ◦ C

Georgi
et al., 2010

Malaysia Tropic (hot

and humid)

Measurement
of ambient air
temperature (Ta),
Relative humidity
(RH), wind speed (v)
and mean radiant
temperature (Tmrt)
Questionnaires.
Focus on
shading areas.

PET The acceptable

conditions are
higher than the
ones accepted
by the (PET < 34 ◦ C).
The locations with
shading obtained
from plants and
surrounding
buildings had a longer
thermal acceptable
period.

Makaremi
et al., 2012

Wellington
New
Zealand

Temperate Ambient

temperature,
MRT in exposed
and MRT in
shaded areas

Bedford
scale
(Bedford,
1961)

People actively adapt
to microclimatic
conditions in outdoor
environments.
Maximum wind
gust is the most
important parameter
in predicting comfort
adaptivity, followed by,
the mean wind speed.

Walton
et al., 2007

Szeged,
Hungary

Central
European

Measurement
of air temperature
relative humidity,
wind speed global
radiation. Visitors
positioning via GIS.

PET The visitors

mapping facilitated
the detection of
preferred areas
versus the outdoor
environmental
conditions.

Kántor
et al., 2010

Dhaka,
Bangladesh

Tropic
(hot and
humid)

Measurement of
radiant temperature,
humidity, wind speed
and direction, air
temperature and lux.

- At relative humidity

of 70%, the comfort
is between 28.5 and
32 8C and the radiant
temperature between
28.71 and 32.57 8C,
The airflow extends
the comfort
temperature
but not significantly.
Behavioural sinks,
should be provided.

Ahmed,
2003

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