Cite this article Kamenská, M., Smatanová, K. (2022) ‘The impacts of climate change on urban structures in Slovak cities: Identifying vulnerable urban structures’, Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 27(1), pp. 33-39. https://www.doi.org/10.2478/alfa-2022-0005   SUMMARY In the coming decades, our cities will face extreme weather caused by climate change, which they […]

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