Climate-Sensitive Urban Planning and Design in the Warming World
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 1351
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The urban climate is facing unprecedented challenges due to rapid urbanization and climate change. The urban heat island phenomenon has been exacerbated by the increasing frequency, duration and intensity of temperature extremes. It deteriorates the environmental quality and, hence, the livability of urban areas. Climate-sensitive urban planning and design, for example, land use planning, urban geometry design, and urban greening, emerge as solutions to combat the warming trend in urban areas. They aim to mitigate intense urban heat by reducing the thermal load and enhancing air ventilation in the urban environment. Quantitative methods such as field measurements and monitoring, scale, and numerical modeling have widely been used to provide scientific evidence and inform urban planners and designers about climate-sensitive planning and design strategies.
This Special Issue aims to address the gaps in the knowledge of tackling urban climate issues through climate-sensitive urban planning and design. It is open to contributions (original research papers and a limited number of reviews of state-of-the-art technological and theoretical approaches) that explore the development and applications of climate-sensitive urban planning and design. This includes using field studies and numerical techniques to assess the urban climate or associated environmental quality at various spatial scales as well as to evaluate the performance of climate-sensitive urban planning and design. Papers describing the applications in local policy framework of urban planning and design are also encouraged.
Dr. Kevin Ka Lun Lau
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate-sensitive
- urban geometry
- urban greenery
- materials
- thermal
- ventilation
