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Integrating Urban Heat Assessment in Urban Plans

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  • Leyre Echevarría Icaza

    (Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment; Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands)

  • Andy Van den Dobbelsteen

    (Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment; Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands)

  • Frank Van der Hoeven

    (Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment; Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands)

Abstract

The world is increasingly concerned with sustainability issues. Climate change is not the least of these concerns. The complexity of these issues is such that data and information management form an important means of making the right decisions. Nowadays, however, the sheer quantity of data is overwhelming; large quantities of data demand means of representation that are comprehensible and effective. The above dilemma poses questions as to how one incorporates unknown climatologic parameters, such as urban heat, in future urban planning processes, and how one ensures the proposals are specific enough to actually adapt cities to climate change and flexible enough to ensure the proposed measures are combinable and compatible with other urban planning priorities. Conventional urban planning processes and mapping strategies are not adapted to this new environmental, technological and social context. In order come up with more appropriate urban planning strategies, in its first section this paper analyzes the role of the urban planner, reviews the wide variety of parameters that are starting to be integrated into the urban planners practice, and considers the parameters (mainly land surface temperature, albedo, vegetation, and imperviousness) and tools needed for the assessment of the UHI (satellite imagery and GIS). The second part of the study analyzes the potential of four catalyzing mapping categories to integrate urban heat into spatial planning processes: drift, layering, game-board, and rhizome.

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  • Leyre Echevarría Icaza & Andy Van den Dobbelsteen & Frank Van der Hoeven, 2016. "Integrating Urban Heat Assessment in Urban Plans," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-15, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:8:y:2016:i:4:p:320-:d:66895
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    1. Meryl Jagarnath & Tirusha Thambiran & Michael Gebreslasie, 2020. "Heat stress risk and vulnerability under climate change in Durban metropolitan, South Africa—identifying urban planning priorities for adaptation," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 163(2), pages 807-829, November.
    2. Luis Inostroza & Massimo Palme & Francisco de la Barrera, 2016. "A Heat Vulnerability Index: Spatial Patterns of Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity for Santiago de Chile," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(9), pages 1-26, September.
    3. Tiangui Lv & Li Wang & Hualin Xie & Xinmin Zhang & Yanwei Zhang, 2021. "Exploring the Global Research Trends of Land Use Planning Based on a Bibliometric Analysis: Current Status and Future Prospects," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-19, March.
    4. Leyre Echevarría Icaza & Franklin Van der Hoeven, 2017. "Regionalist Principles to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-17, April.
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    10. Walter Leal Filho & Leyre Echevarria Icaza & Victoria Omeche Emanche & Abul Quasem Al-Amin, 2017. "An Evidence-Based Review of Impacts, Strategies and Tools to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-29, December.
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