ABSTRACT
Since 2006, over half of the world’s population has lived in cities (UN, 2008). The number of mega-and high-density cities on earth is on the rise. In developing countries, the rate of city growth and urbanisation is increasing. City governments and their planners have the unprecedented task of finding ways to design their cities so that quality living, or merely day-to-day living, can be sustained (Ng, 2009a). Furthermore, given the global needs to reduce energy use in buildings, not only is designing low energy buildings important, creating conducive boundary conditions for the buildings via good city planning is paramount.
