To the Issue of Regulating Criteria of Pedestrian Comfort at the Territory of Urban Development
The problem of accounting for aeration conditions at the territory of residential development is considered. At present, the problem of determining the comfort of pedestrian zones has not an unambiguous interpretation nor in normative sources, nor in technical literature. National and foreign normative documents and also scientific-technical literature devoted to the problems of study of pedestrian comfort criteria at the territory of residential development are analyzed. The methodology of assessment of bioclimatic comfort presented in the national standard of Netherland (Standard NEN 8100), the only current normative document on this subject in the world, is presented. The necessity of improving existing methods and their use when designing areas of residential development for comfort enhancement, and, in some cases, for ensuring the human security that is especially actual for areas of dense development as well as for areas with high-rise buildings is substantiated.