BUILDINGS DENSITY AND THE AIR TEMPERATURE OF URBAN AREA
BARBARA ŚLESAK1, DAMIAN ABSALON2
1 Uppersilesian Centre of Child health, Silesian Medical
University, Medyków 16, 40-752 Katowice, Poland
2 Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60,
41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
Abstract: Buildings density and the air temperature of urban area. This paper
attempts to assess the impact of air temperature increase connected with the
degree of anthropogenic transformation of an area on the subjectively perceived
quality of life. The area under study is the Metropolitan Association of Upper
Silesia (Polish: Górnośląski Związek Metropolitalny – GZM). We analyzed the
average monthly temperatures in different seasons and compared with size and
density of buildings in the analyzed area.The result is a methodology that
involves anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic factors to assess the impact of
weather conditions on the quality of life in the analyzed area.
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