Archinect - News2024-12-22T02:58:48-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/143449755/judging-a-city-s-carbon-footprint-from-its-skyline
Judging a city's carbon footprint from its skyline Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2015-12-15T17:09:00-05:00>2015-12-27T23:25:28-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c7/c7bcd0a0182b7eb401106a4cab3a60fd?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>How do building shapes vary from one city to the next, in particular with city size? And could this lead to a more general understanding of how energy consumption changes as cities grow or shrink? [...]
They conclude that on average, the shapes of buildings in North American cities converge on a cube-like shape as cities get bigger—that’s the most energy efficient shape.
That should have important implications for energy use in future megacities.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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