TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citiesFigure 13: London (left), Toulouse (upper right) and Berlin (lower right) urbanmorphologies at the same scale. Three examples of European urban textures(Victorian, medieval and modern). The most sustainable is the medieval one.Figure 14: Passive zones (within 6 m from the facade) in London, Toulouse andBerlin, second floor(from C. Ratti et al. 2005).Figure 15: Energy consumption in London, Toulouse and Berlin, non-passivezones consume approximately the double of unobstructed passive zones [12].5.7. Coupling of the Digital elevation model analysis with the light and thermalsimulation toolsThe analysis of DEMs (Digital Elevation models) will be used to explore theeffects of urban texture on building energy consumption in various areas ofShanghai. DEM is an effective support to derive morphological urban parametersquickly. Some of these will then be passed to a simulation tool (LT), in order to getenergy consumption figures (Fig 16).431