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Robert Brown helps us see that a "thermally comfortable microclimate" is the very foundation of well-designed and well-used outdoor places. Brown argues that as we try to minimize human-induced changes to the climate and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels-as some areas become warmer, some cooler, some wetter, and some drier, and all become more expensive to regulate-good microclimate design will become increasingly important. In the future, according to Brown, all designers will need to understand climatic issues and be able to respond to their challenges.

Brown describes the effects that climate has on outdoor spaces-using vivid illustrations and examples-while providing practical tools that can be used in everyday design practice. The heart of the book is Brown's own design process, as he provides useful guidelines that lead designers clearly through the complexity of climate data, precedents, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation. Brown strikes an ideal balance of technical information, anecdotes, examples, and illustrations to keep the book engaging and accessible. His emphasis throughout is on creating microclimates that attend to the comfort, health, and well-being of people, animals, and plants.

Design with Microclimate is a vital resource for students and practitioners in landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and urban design.

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In this engaging book, Brown (landscape architecture, Univ. of Guelph, Canada) embraces the reader as a welcome guest, ushering him/her into a cozy den lined with his experiences, examples, and ideas. As readers travel around the world with him from his boyhood farm in Saskatchewan to Kyoto, Adelaide, Lima, and southern Italy, they will find themselves quite enjoying some pretty dry concepts like Kelvin conversion, absolute terrestrial radiation, and climate normals. With an eye on the practical and a feel for vernacular architectural context, Brown illustrates the secret to comfortable outdoor space. He provides needed inspiration to designers, landscape architects, planners, and architects with commonsense, easily understood models for analyzing microclimate at the human scale. This thought-provoking, interdisciplinary book is well illustrated, readable, and at many junctures, surprising. More design treatises like this are needed--works that contrast the intuitive with the counterintuitive and provide a sense that real change at the human level is within the professional's scope. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. S. Hammer Boston University

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Robert D. Brown is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the senior author of Microclimatic Landscape Design and author of Landscape Assessment for Planning and Design .