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Ms. Wesam M. Elbardisy
Lecturer Assistant at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams Univeristy

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0 Outdoor Spaces
0 Urban simulation
0 Thermal comfort and environmental quality
0 Landscape planning, design, and management
0 Urban design

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Journal article
Published: 26 August 2021 in Sustainability
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In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, studies focused on the relationship between urban planning practice and climatology are still lacking, despite the fact that the latter has nearly three decades of literature in the region and the former has much more. However, such an unfounded relationship that would consider urban sustainability measures is a serious challenge, especially considering the effects of climate change. The Greater Cairo Region (GCR) has recently witnessed numerous serious urban vehicular network re-development, leaving the city less green and in need of strategically re-thinking the plan regarding, and the role of, green infrastructure. Therefore, this study focuses on approaches to the optimization of the urban green infrastructure, in order to reduce solar irradiance in the city and, thus, its effects on the urban climatology. This is carried out by studying one of the East Cairo neighborhoods, named El-Nozha district, as a representative case of the most impacted neighborhoods. In an attempt to quantify these effects, using parametric simulation, the Air Temperature (Ta), Mean Radiant Temperature (Tmrt), Relative Humidity (RH), and Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) parameters were calculated before and after introducing urban trees, acting as green infrastructure types that mitigate climate change and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. Our results indicate that an optimized percentage, spacing, location, and arrangement of urban tree canopies can reduce the irradiance flux at the ground surface, having positive implications in terms of mitigating the urban heat island effect.

ACS Style

Wesam M. Elbardisy; Mohamed A. Salheen; Mohammed Fahmy. Solar Irradiance Reduction Using Optimized Green Infrastructure in Arid Hot Regions: A Case Study in El-Nozha District, Cairo, Egypt. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9617 .

AMA Style

Wesam M. Elbardisy, Mohamed A. Salheen, Mohammed Fahmy. Solar Irradiance Reduction Using Optimized Green Infrastructure in Arid Hot Regions: A Case Study in El-Nozha District, Cairo, Egypt. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (17):9617.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Wesam M. Elbardisy; Mohamed A. Salheen; Mohammed Fahmy. 2021. "Solar Irradiance Reduction Using Optimized Green Infrastructure in Arid Hot Regions: A Case Study in El-Nozha District, Cairo, Egypt." Sustainability 13, no. 17: 9617.

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Published: 01 January 2016 in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
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In recent years, the accelerated rate of urban growth in hot climate cities highlights the critical necessity of creating more outdoor spaces for different activities of citizens from leisure or recreation. Thermal sensation of users have not been fully explored in outdoor environments of hot and humid climate specially in early stages of design which affects thermal comfort in negative ways. This fact elucidates the need for considering human thermal comfort in outdoor spaces design with such climates. Recently, Egyptian climatic quality of space has received attention among climatologist and urban designers. In most cases, the climatic sensitive landscape design is absent on planning and site design levels. This paper discusses the climatic sensitive landscape design in public schools courtyards using ENVI-met simulation tool. A case study: EL-Sherouk school is selected and numerically simulated in elevated temperature during school time. The simulation results revealed high thermal discomfort after setting boundary conditions for the climate and the possible vegetation patterns. Finally, the paper concludes that specific patterns and types of trees among other landscape elements strongly ameliorate the microclimate within such schools courtyard size. They significantly attenuate the direct radiation modify the wind speed and direction; and fairly reduce temperature and change humidity. Design implications were proposed for a better microclimate in school courtyards.

ACS Style

Wesam M. El-Bardisy; Mohammad Fahmy; Germeen F. El-Gohary. Climatic Sensitive Landscape Design: Towards a Better Microclimate through Plantation in Public Schools, Cairo, Egypt. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2016, 216, 206 -216.

AMA Style

Wesam M. El-Bardisy, Mohammad Fahmy, Germeen F. El-Gohary. Climatic Sensitive Landscape Design: Towards a Better Microclimate through Plantation in Public Schools, Cairo, Egypt. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2016; 216 ():206-216.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Wesam M. El-Bardisy; Mohammad Fahmy; Germeen F. El-Gohary. 2016. "Climatic Sensitive Landscape Design: Towards a Better Microclimate through Plantation in Public Schools, Cairo, Egypt." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 216, no. : 206-216.