Assessment of thermal stress in a street canyon in pedestrian area with or without canopy shading

Urban areas are characterized by a plurality of microclimates given by the diversity of morphologies, optical and radiative properties, solar access and air circulation in different street canyons. For these reasons, beyond strategies at urban scale, mitigation needs to be addressed at district or even at urban canyon scale, just like the design of buildings. Among different options, canopy shading has been proposed in several urban contexts, and to assess the impact of this mitigation technique on air temperature and outdoor thermal comfort conditions we performed numerical simulations for a north-south oriented urban canyon with high solar access (height to width ratio equal to 0.18) in the climate context of Milano (Italy).