A review of breathable residential areas in Xi'an of China

ABSTRACT

Northern cities in China are experiencing severe haze pollution. How to improve the urban ventilation capacity by improving the layout of urban space is a problem that China urgently needs to solve. The paper reviews the urban environmental problems, research methods of wind environment in residential areas, wind profile, coupling mechanism of spatial patterns of urban residential areas and wind environment, so to provide ideas for wind environment improvement in residential areas of Xi’an. At the same time, it provides research methods for the healthy development of cities in the same latitude region in the world.

KEYWORDS:

• Haze pollution
• residential area
• wind environment
• unmanned aerial vehicle
• wind profile
• urban form
• coupling mechanism

Acknowledgement

The paper was supported by ‘the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities’ (No. xjj2017191) and ‘Scientific Research Support of New Teacher of Xi’an Jiaotong University’(No. JZ1K004), ‘China Postdoctoral Science Foundation’(No. 2018M633514).

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [grant number 2018M633514]; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [grant number xjj2017191]; Scientific Research Support of New Teacher of Xi’an Jiaotong University [grant number JZ1K004].