ABSTRACT
More than 20 cities in the world have 10 million inhabitants or more; in the downtown areas of these cities, taller buildings and higher-density living are now the norm. Finding ways of optimizing the city and architectural design for the inhabitants’ enjoyment of daylight is now an increasingly demanding design challenge. Design tools are needed. It is sometimes dangerous to extrapolate existing tools beyond their limits when situations change. Hence, there is a constant need to review and update the tools that we require to design appropriately as the urban morphology of the city changes from low to high density.
