[New Proceedings] Towards the Framework of Livable and Resilient Cities (Springer)

If you think urban resilience is a nice-to-have, the numbers below will change your mind. This collection distills 32 peer-reviewed papers from CCES-4 & HERL-3 into 4 action tracks—design, clean energy, climate adaptation, and behavior/policy—spanning case studies from 18+ countries (AU, CN, BE, IT, US, ES, DK, NO, NL, SI, MX, EG, IN, AE, SA, TH, TG, DO).

🔥 5 findings that made me sit up:

1. Cool pavements = fewer heat injuries, immediately. On Seville’s 95th-percentile summer day, a water-circulated “cool” pavement cut surface temps by ~20 °C (62.2 → 42.3 °C) and expanded “comfort hours” by +40% vs. dry asphalt.
2. Green façades work—and not by a little. CFD for hot-humid Guangzhou shows GFs lower: • Buffer-zone temps by 0.67–3.24 °C • Indoor temps by 1.27–3.45 °C • Wall temps by up to 7.68 °C (S) and 13.24 °C (W) That’s passive cooling you can design for, not just hope for.
3. Hospital air emitter design is a safety issue. Switching a patient room from natural to mechanical ventilation cuts air residence time by 70–80% and stabilizes patient-zone temps around ~26 °C with comfortable ~0.25 m/s airspeed. Infection control meets comfort.
4. Hydrophilic façades can water food gardens; at scale. A 1,044 m² south façade at the University of Arizona’s Maricopa Hall could generate ~47 L/day (329 L/week) from ambient humidity—enough to irrigate 13+ 1 m² community garden plots with ~150 L/week to spare. In a dorm food desert.
5. Right-sized PV tips buildings to nZEB/PEB; even in the tropics. In Santo Domingo, a residential nZEB meets targets at ~3.60 kWp and achieves 12/12 “positive” months at 5.28 kWp despite PV degradation; undersizing to 1.98 kWp risks months below break-even. Sizing matters more than you think.

💸 Cost reality check (cold-climate China): Passive houses carry higher CAPEX ($500k vs. $420k) but nearly halve OPEX ($7k vs. $13k/yr). Over the life cycle, results show why investors must evaluate NPV under realistic energy price scenarios—passive stays resilient across sensitivities.

Why this matters: These are not lab curiosities; they’re deployable levers cities can pull this budget cycle: street-level cooling, envelope retrofits, clinical ventilation design, humidity harvesting for urban agriculture, and PV sizing that survives climate and degradation risk.

👏 Huge congrats to the editorial team @Baojie He, @Ali Cheshmehzangi, @Cristina Piselli, @Hirushie Karunathilake, @Shady Attia, @Amos Darko and all contributors for turning vision into toolkits.

📗 Read the book online: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-97849-4 or https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/330361

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