No

Authors & Year

Title

citations

Norm Citation

Keywords

Main focus and findings

6.

Chow et al., 2016

Assessment of measured and perceived microclimates within a tropical urban forest

50

1.75

Urban parks, outdoor thermal comfort, tropical microclimate

Street trees with medium dense canopy greatly reduces heat stress in the streets.

7.

Yahia et al., 2018

Effect of urban design on microclimate and thermal comfort outdoors in warm-humid Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

46

1.68

Urban design, urban microclimate, and outdoor comfort, urban morphologies, warm-humid city

Vegetation—Measured and perceived thermal comfort are found to be significantly different, humidity and wind conditions are potentially critical for tropical thermal comfort.

8.

Lau et al., 2019

Outdoor thermal comfort in different urban settings of sub-tropical high-density cities: an approach of adopting local climate zone (LCZ) classification

31

1.50

Outdoor thermal comfort local climate zone subjective thermal perception microclimatic conditions sub-tropical high-density cities

Morphology & vegetation—Low-rise buildings create more stressful urban spaces compared to high-rise, trees with high canopy density improve OTC conditions, but vegetation might negatively affect the wind ventilation.

9.

Fung and Jim, 2020

Influence of blue infrastructure on lawn thermal microclimate in a subtropical green space

8

1.03

Pond microclimate waterbody cooling effect blue infrastructure urban heat island universal thermal climate index thermal comfort

Morphology—People perceive warmer sensation in a compact or high-rise setting, variations of urban settings differently affect the relationship between thermal stress and subjective thermal sensation, future research is required determine how LCZ classification system can be applied at individual levels and later to inform urban design practices.

10.

Hsieh, Jan, and Zhang, 2016

A simplified assessment of how tree allocation, wind environment, and shading affect human comfort

30

1.05

Wind environment, and shading, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), human comfort, microclimate, standard effective temperature (SET*), wind environment

Water bodies—Small shallow pond has reduced air temperature at downwind lawn area by 0.7˚C on a sunny day, deeper and more dynamic waterbodies could be more effective being incorporated with tree shading and natural surfaces.