Int. J. Global Warming, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018 181 Copyright © 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. An assessment to evaluate potential passive cooling patterns for climate change adaptation in a residential neighbourhood of a Mediterranean coastal city (Athens, Greece) Ioannis X. Tsiros* Meteorology Laboratory, Agricultural University of Athens, 75, Iera Odos Str., 11855 Athens, Greece Email: itsiros@aua.gr Email: yohan.tsiros@gmail.com *Corresponding author Milo E. Hoffman Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Email: mhoffman@technion.ac.il Areti Tseliou Zayed University, P.O. Box 261226, Yacht Bay Tower, Al Marsha street, Dubai Marina, UAE Email: tseliou.a@outlook.com Vasiliki Christopoulou Meteorology Laboratory, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece Email: v_christopoulou@yahoo.com Spyridon Lykoudis Enargeia WG, Akrita 66, GR-24132, Kalamata, Messinia, Greece Email: slykoud@yahoo.com