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

## TL;DR

This paper investigates how the complexity and orientation of urban street networks influence the solar potential of buildings, highlighting the relationship between urban design and sustainability.

## Contribution

It introduces a statistical framework linking street orientation entropy and topography to building solar potential, providing insights into urban planning for sustainability.

## Key findings

- Higher street orientation entropy correlates with increased solar potential.
- Urban topography significantly affects building orientation and solar efficiency.
- The study offers a new method to assess urban sustainability through network analysis.

## 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.