Local Climate Zone Application in Sustainable Urban Development

Chapter 1. Urbanization and urban climate in high-density cities.- Chapter 2. Origins and evolution of the Local Climate Zone classification system.- Chapter 3. Current popular methods for LCZ mapping.- Chapter 4. Recent improvements in supervised pixel-based LCZ classification.- Chapter 5. Application of LCZ to urban heat island studies.- Chapter 6. Application of LCZ to land use and land cover studies.- Chapter 7. Application of LCZ to wind environment studies.- Chapter 8. Application of LCZ to energy consumption and carbon emission modeling.- Chapter 9. Application of LCZ to thermal comfort and health-related studies.- Chapter 10. Application of LCZ to time-series urban morphology detection.- Chapter 11. Application of LCZ in mesoscale meteorological model simulations and climate projection.- Chapter 12. Integration of LCZ to planning strategies.- Chapter 13. Conclusions and outlook.