Tropical Urban Heat Islands

Nyuk Hien Wong is Associate Professor and Programme Director of the Master of Science (Building Science) programme in the Department of Building at the National University of Singapore. Yu Chen is a graduate student in the Department of Building at the National University of Singapore.

• Part 1: Introduction 1. Tropical Climate 2. Tropical Buildings 3. Tropical Plants 4. Climate and Buildings 5. Buildings and Plants 6. Plants and Climate 7. Climate-Building-Plants System Part 2: Case Studies 8. Measurements in Singapore

"This is a very thorough book, which … has applications for highly urbanised areas in almost any climate and should therefore prove to be of value to architects, developers, designers and policy makers involved in urban planning."- Martin Liddament, International Journal of Ventilation"The book discusses the transition from vernacular buildings to contemporary buildings in various tropical urban areas. The authors provide some very interesting examples of the often associated loss of consideration to local climatic conditions, in addition to suggested urban design strategies for contemporary buildings built in the Tropics." -Melissa Hart, American Meteorological Society (January, 2012)