Urban Heat Stress and Mitigation Solutions

Abstract

This chapter discusses the dominant role played by urban form in determining the local-scale urban heat island intensity across a city. Urban form is intended purely as the geometry of urban surface, determined by the shape and arrangement of buildings at the district scale. The correlation between changes in the urban fabric and urban heat island intensity across a city is described in relation to two features of urban form: urban compactness and vertical density. A set of urban form parameters is provided for applications in urban planning to map the climate performance of different urban textures.

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