Abstract
Shade plays a crucial role in creating liveable outdoor spaces in hot arid cities. Numerous studies have been conducted to understand the relationship between human behaviour and built form and how the physical environment responds to human needs and reflects social values. However, there have been limited reviews of the relationship between solar shading that results from built form and behaviour in hot and arid climates. This study aims to highlight the current state of knowledge of the built environment-induced solar shading through articles obtained from Web of Science (WOS), Scopus and Science Direct databases and published between 1 January 2012, and 31 December 2022. Following the PRISMA method and a bibliometrics analysis, from 679 a set of 60 relevant research papers was utilized in this study. The open-source statistical and visualisation software VOSviewer was used mainly for processing and analysing datasets. As a result of the clustering, three main research themes were offered in warmer cities: “thermal comfort and built form”, “built form and shadow”, and “shading and behaviours”. The findings are valuable in terms of mapping and provide a view to deriving usable knowledge relevant to sustainable design practice in warmer places.