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With the accelerating of urbanization and agglomeration of urban population in the world, urban high-density space has emerged which leads to human factor changes of thermal environment in urban central areas. Urban thermal environment is closely related to urban planning, urban ecology, air pollution and municipal construction, and the QOL of citizens in particular. The high temperature issue of cities in summer has become a hot topic of the society this year.
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Yang, J., Shi, X. (2020). Introduction. In: The Centre of City: Thermal Environment and Spatial Morphology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9706-6_1
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