Publication

Urban Greenery

Revealing Multiscale and Nonlinear Effects of Urban Green Spaces on Heat Islands in High-Density Cities: Insights from MSPA and Machine Learning

Author: Qikang Zhong, Zhe Li, Jiawei Zhu, Chao Yuan

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society

Year: 2025

Urban Greenery

Coupling effects of building-vegetation-land on seasonal land surface temperature on street-level: A study from a campus in Beijing

Author: Shuyang Zhang, Chao Yuan, Beini Ma, Nianxiong Liu, Wenwen Li

Journal: Building and Environment

Year: 2024

Climate Resilience

Heat risk assessment and response to green infrastructure based on local climate zones

Author: Yang Xiang, Chao Yuan, Qingya Cen, Chunbo Huang, Changguang Wu, Mingjun Teng, Zhixiang Zhou

Journal: Building and Environment

Year: 2024

Urban Greenery

Effects of tree plantings with varying street aspect ratios on the thermal environment using a mechanistic urban canopy model

Author: Taihan Chen, Naika Meili, Simone Fatichi, Jian Hang, Puay Yok Tan, Chao Yuan

Journal: Building and Environment

Year: 2023

Climate Resilience

Effects of tree plantings and aspect ratios on pedestrian visual and thermal comfort using scaled outdoor experiments

Author: Taihan Chen, Haonan Pan, Mengrong Lu, Jian Hang, Cho Kwong Charlie Lam, ChaoYuan, David Pearlmutter

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

Year: 2021

Urban Greenery

Effects of vertical farming on natural ventilation of residential buildings

Author: Chao Yuan, Ruiqin Shan, Ayu Sukma Adelia, Abel Tablada, Siu Kit Lau, Stephen Siu-Yu Lau

Journal: Energy and Buildings (Vol 185)

Year: 2019

Urban Greenery

Design Optimization of Productive Façades: Integrating Photovoltaic and Farming Systems at the Tropical Technologies Laboratory

Author: Abel Tablada, Vesna Kosorić, Huajing Huang, Lan Kevin Chaplin, Siu-Kit Lau, Chao Yuan, Stephen Siu-Yu Lau

Journal: Sustainability (Vol 10)

Year: 2018

Urban Greenery

An Ecological Study of the Association between Area-Level Green Space and Adult Mortality in Hong Kong

Author: Lixia Xu, Chao Ren, Chao Yuan, Janet E. Nichol, William B. Goggins

Journal: Climate (Volume 55, Iss 5)

Year: 2017

Urban Greenery

A study on the impact of shadow-cast and tree species on in-canyon and neighborhood’s thermal comfort

Author: Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo, Ling Kong, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Chao Yuan, Edward Ng

Journal: Building and Environment (Vol 115)

Year: 2017

Urban Greenery

Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong

Author: KongLing Kong, Kevin Ka-Lun Lau, Chao Yuan, Yang Chen, Yong Xu, Chao Ren, Edward Ng

Journal: Sustainable Cities and Society (Vol 31)

Year: 2017

Urban Greenery

A semi-empirical model for the effect of trees on the urban wind environment

Author: Chao Yuan, Leslie Norford, Edward Ng

Journal: Landscape and Urban Planning (Vol 168)

Year: 2017

Urban Greenery

A study on the cooling effects of greening in a high-density city: An experience from Hong Kong

Author: Edward Ng, Liang Chen, Yingna Wang, Chao Yuan

Journal: Building and Environment (Vol 47)

Year: 2012