Wu Wei, Song Yan, Hong Zaisheng, Lu Yihua

Keywords： Urban Form; Residential Energy Consumption; Low-carbon City

Abstract：

It is an effective way to construct low-carbon city by determining the influence factors of residential energy consumption and improving the efficiency of energy consumption. As an important factor of affecting the residential energy consumption, urban form has been studied in many aspects by foreign scholars. Based on the existing research results, this paper first summarizes the influence mechanism of urban form on residential energy consumption. Then, it introduces the influence of different urban form factors on residential energy consumption, the urban form factors includes: housing form, planting, surface coverage, density and community layout. Finally, this paper puts forward the enlightenment to China from two aspects: future research and planning suggestion.

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