Along the sun-drenched roadside: On the interplay between urban street orientation entropy and the buildings' solar potential

Abstract

We explore the relation between urban road network characteristics particularly circuitry, street orientation entropy and the city's topography on the one hand and the building's orientation entropy on the other in order to quantify their effect on the city's solar potential. These statistical measures of the road network reveal the interplay between the built environment's design and its sustainability.