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100			_aTavares, Silvia G _945785
245			_acase-based methodology for investigating urban comfort through interpretive research and microclimate analysis in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand
260			_bSage, _c2019.
300			_aVol 46, Issue 4, 2019,(731-750 p.)
520			_aThis paper explores how an interpretive case-based research strategy can reveal new empirical and theoretical insights into microclimate design. Innovative fieldwork in Christchurch, New Zealand investigated the nature and social meanings of urban comfort in a city with a seasonal climate featuring microclimatic variability, and with a physical landscape undergoing rapid change following a series of major earthquakes. Ethnographic methods were combined with microclimate measurements in four Christchurch-based case study locations to identify ways in which people adjust their cultural and lifestyle values and expectations to the actual microclimatic conditions. The field investigation had to capture data relevant to the microclimatic variability and be suitable for rapidly changing urban settings. Results suggest this integrative methodology successfully adapts to challenging physical contexts, and is able to provide a coherent body of evidence. Important insights revealed through this methodology may not have become apparent if only conventional microclimate methods were used.
650			_aInterpretive research, _945786
650			_amicroclimate, _942117
650			_aurban comfort, _945787
650			_a earthquakes, _945788
650			_aNew Zealand _945789
700			_aSwaffield, Simon R _945790
700			_a Stewart, Emma J _945791
773	0		_011590 _915512 _dSage 2019. _t Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317725318
942			_2ddc _cART