As global temperatures rise, urban areas face unprecedented challenges from intensified heat. “Adapting to Urban Heat” offers a comprehensive exploration of design strategies and tools essential for building resilience in low-carbon cities.
The book covers the following topics:
• Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation: An introduction to the pressing need for adaptive measures in urban environments.
• Understanding, mitigating, and adapting to urban overheating: Insights into the impacts of urban heat and the latest mitigation technologies, including the interplay between advanced materials, nature, buildings, and human behavior.
• Designing for urban heat adaptation: Practical design strategies aimed at enhancing microclimates and user comfort at the neighborhood scale, with a focus on the relationship between urban forms and greenery.
• Tools for decoding and coding urban heat: An examination of data science, urban meteorological networks, remote sensing, GIS applications, and modeling techniques that inform effective heat adaptation strategies
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. ix 7. About the editors - p. xiii 8. Preface - p. xv 9. Acknowledgments - p. xvii 10. Summary of contents - p. xix 11. Part 1: Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation - p. P1 12. Chapter one. Adapting to heat - p. 3 13. Part 2: Understanding, mitigating and adapting to urban overheating - p. P21 14. Chapter two. Urban overheating: impacts and heat mitigation technologies - p. 23 15. Chapter three. Anticipatory adaptation in climate change times - p. 41 16. Part 3: Designing for urban heat adaptation - p. P65 17. Chapter four. Adapting to the heat and enhancing user comfort outdoors: climate-responsive strategies and social implications - p. 67 18. Chapter five. Understanding the interrelationships between urban spaces and buildings, within overheating cities - p. 95 19. Chapter six. Understanding and measuring the cooling performance of trees - p. 121 20. Part 4: Tools for decoding and coding urban heat - p. P139 21. Chapter seven. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities - p. 141 22. Chapter Eight. From urban meteorological networks to adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad - p. 165 23. Chapter nine. The role of using remote sensing evaluating urban heat adaptation strategies measures - p. 187 24. Chapter TEN. Multiscale modeling techniques and experimental monitoring of heat - p. 209 25. Chapter eleven. Adapting to urban heat: on the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings’ overheating - p. 229 26. Part 5: Regenerative pathways for heat‑adapting - p. P251 27. Chapter twelve. Education–practice–policy and tools for heat-adapting - p. 253 28. Index - p. 269
As global temperatures rise, urban areas face unprecedented challenges from intensified heat. “Adapting to Urban Heat” offers a comprehensive exploration of design strategies and tools essential for building resilience in low-carbon cities.
The book covers the following topics:
• Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation: An introduction to the pressing need for adaptive measures in urban environments.
• Understanding, mitigating, and adapting to urban overheating: Insights into the impacts of urban heat and the latest mitigation technologies, including the interplay between advanced materials, nature, buildings, and human behavior.
• Designing for urban heat adaptation: Practical design strategies aimed at enhancing microclimates and user comfort at the neighborhood scale, with a focus on the relationship between urban forms and greenery.
• Tools for decoding and coding urban heat: An examination of data science, urban meteorological networks, remote sensing, GIS applications, and modeling techniques that inform effective heat adaptation strategies
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. List of contributors - p. ix 7. About the editors - p. xiii 8. Preface - p. xv 9. Acknowledgments - p. xvii 10. Summary of contents - p. xix 11. Part 1: Setting the stage for urban heat adaptation - p. P1 12. Chapter one. Adapting to heat - p. 3 13. Part 2: Understanding, mitigating and adapting to urban overheating - p. P21 14. Chapter two. Urban overheating: impacts and heat mitigation technologies - p. 23 15. Chapter three. Anticipatory adaptation in climate change times - p. 41 16. Part 3: Designing for urban heat adaptation - p. P65 17. Chapter four. Adapting to the heat and enhancing user comfort outdoors: climate-responsive strategies and social implications - p. 67 18. Chapter five. Understanding the interrelationships between urban spaces and buildings, within overheating cities - p. 95 19. Chapter six. Understanding and measuring the cooling performance of trees - p. 121 20. Part 4: Tools for decoding and coding urban heat - p. P139 21. Chapter seven. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities - p. 141 22. Chapter Eight. From urban meteorological networks to adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad - p. 165 23. Chapter nine. The role of using remote sensing evaluating urban heat adaptation strategies measures - p. 187 24. Chapter TEN. Multiscale modeling techniques and experimental monitoring of heat - p. 209 25. Chapter eleven. Adapting to urban heat: on the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings’ overheating - p. 229 26. Part 5: Regenerative pathways for heat‑adapting - p. P251 27. Chapter twelve. Education–practice–policy and tools for heat-adapting - p. 253 28. Index - p. 269
