Urban climatic design strategies for a tropical city : an analysis of urban climate and thermal comfort variations in the city of Kandy and its surrounding

Abstract

This dissertation is a research study that intends to establish the urban climatic design strategies for tropical cities. As study it analyze the urban climate in selected locations of Kandy city. The focus is on the thermal comfort variations in the city and it's surrounding. In the present scenario people appear to be shying away from the public use of urban outdoor built environment in the city. As a result of harsh discomfort of the places, that mainly affected areas are the streets in the urban environments. By based on the analysis of existing situations of the study, aims to suggested the means of creating a climatically pleasing built environment with improved urban spatial qualities. This study considered the physical conditions, and historical context and further analyzes the on-site measurements that are responsible for improvement of comfortable out door built environment in the city.