Adapting to Urban Heat:

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.

- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the study and understanding of urban heat islands

- Presents evidence-based strategies to for adapting to climate change and building urban resilience

- Includes a critical assessment of the role data science and GIS technologies play in climate change and urban planning