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
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1. A Rough Ride to Urban Resilience: Challenges and Design Opportunities in the Age of Climate Change
PART 2: UNDERSTANDING URBAN HEAT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
2. Understanding Urban Heat within the Climate Change Realm.
3. Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and Decarbonization
4. Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Strategies from an Economic Perspective
PART 3: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT
5. The Role of Data Science in Developing Low-Carbon Cities with Improved Urban Heat Mitigation
6. Evaluating the Performance of Urban Heat Adaptation Strategy Measures Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies
7. Urban Heat Mitigation: Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental Monitoring
PART 4: DESIGN FOR ADAPTING TO URBAN HEAT
8. Urban Heat Adaptation through Improved Architectural Energy-Efficiency
9. Harnessing the Power of Nature: Adaptation through Nature-Based Solutions
10. Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighborhood Scale
11. Modelling the Effect of Urban Form and Morphology on Local Climate and Heat Island Intensity
PART 5: CONCLUSION
12. Conclusions
Professor Carmen Galán-Marín is a Full Professor in the Department of Building Technology at the University of Seville-Spain (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla). Professor Emanuele Naboni is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Seville, an Academic at the Norman Foster Institute, The Royal Danish Academy, and UNIPR. He consults internationally for urban and architectural firms. Professor Carlos Rivera-Gómez is a Full Professor in the Department of Building Construction at the University of Seville. Professor Matthaios Santamouris is a Scientia, Distinguished, Professor of High Performance Architecture at University of New South Wales.
