Solar energy at urban scale / edited by Benoit Beckers. [electronic resource] Beckers, Benoit, 1969- Solar energy. Urban climatology. Environmental engineering. City planning. TJ810 .S61815 2012eb 690.028/6 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Increasing urbanization throughout the world, the depletion of fossil fuels and concerns about global warming have transformed the city into a physical problem of prime importance. This book proposes a multi-disciplinary and systematic approach concerning specialities as different as meteorology, geography, architecture and urban engineering systems, all surrounding the essential problem of solar radiation. It collects the points of view of 18 specialists from around the world on the interaction between solar energy and constructions, combining territorial, urban and architectural scal. London : ISTE Ltd. ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118562062 eng ISTE ISTE.