Abstract

Abstract City sustainability is an inherently complex process, yet increasingly robust computational tools and digital data are emerging to assist with analysis and planning. Broadly speaking, scholars and urban planners have been developed a large variety of models that can estimate the building energy use aiming the implementation of urban energy reduction strategies and policies. In this paper we propose a brief up-to-date review of the aforementioned models, particularly focussing on spatio-temporal observation. The goal of this paper is to show how to integrate the urban energy use models and the growing attention towards to environmental impact, using Second Law of Thermodynamic for a more rational metric of city sustainability.

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