The Urban Heat Island Effect in Dutch City Centres: Identifying Relevant Indicators and First Explorations

Icaza, Leyre Echevarría; Hoeven, F.D. Van der; Dobbelsteen, Andy van den

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28591-7_7

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“…Greener cities are cooler cities, and several researchers have attempted to quantify the cooling effect of greenery [69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84]. The temperature difference between the parks and their urban surroundings seems to depend on the size of the parks [71,75,[85][86][87][88][89] and on the design of the park [78,90].…”

Section: Greenery Standardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…and the introduction of greenery in new private and common terraces [92] (Figure 5). Several As far as the impact of these residential typologies on UHI is concerned, in The Netherlands, post war residential neighbourhoods seem to have a better thermal behaviour than conventional city centres [59,69], however, they could still benefit from the integration of greenery in the facades and rooftops, the use of highly reflective materials, and the creation of indoor cross ventilation [42]- As far as the impact of these residential typologies on UHI is concerned, in The Netherlands, post war residential neighbourhoods seem to have a better thermal behaviour than conventional city centres [59,69], however, they could still benefit from the integration of greenery in the facades and rooftops, the use of highly reflective materials, and the creation of indoor cross ventilation [42]-which are also part of the design proposal for the community creation-as these would have a beneficial impact on the reduction of heat accumulation at the building block size.…”

Section: The Neighborhood Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

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Regionalist Principles to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect

Icaza

Hoeven

2017

Sustainability

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Scientists, climatologists, and urban planners have started to recognize the importance of nature at two very different scales: the global (metabolic) and the local (liveability) scales. The regional scale is the one at which these macro and micro approaches overlap. Future predictions foresee an increase of more than 2450 million urban inhabitants by 2050, thus new balanced urban visions need to be developed in order to guarantee the sustainability of urban areas. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a climate phenomenon resulting from unbalanced urban design arrangements. This paper analyses several design principles proposed by the 1920s regionalists from the UHI perspective. The preservation of the regional geographical landmarks, the implementation of urban containment policies (limiting city sizes), the increase of greenery and the development of green multifunctional blocks would help reduce the UHI in future urban developments.

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Section: Greenery Standardsmentioning

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Section: The Neighborhood Scalementioning

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Regionalist Principles to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect

Icaza

Hoeven

2017

Sustainability

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“…Layering is an appropriate mechanism to represent different heat reduction options for one particular urban area since there are several mechanisms to reduce urban heat and the selection of these depends on many other factors. Echevarria et al [57] ( Figure 6) map different temperature-related parameters for several Dutch cities. Figure 6 presents the results obtained for the city of The Hague.…”

Section: Layering: Physical Overlapmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The parameter actually mapped would be storage heat flux using satellite imagery retrieved during previous heat waves, and it would be overlapped in GIS with squares, parks, and streets to create routes to guide pedestrians to cooler open space areas. Echevarría et al 2016 [57] carried out the hotspots, coolspots, and wind corridor analysis for the Dutch cities of The Hague, Delft, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Bosch, and Gouda. Where several high level arrows suggest the direction to follow in order to reach cooler areas during heat waves (Figure 7).…”

Section: Driftmentioning

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Integrating Urban Heat Assessment in Urban Plans

2016

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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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The Future of Climate-Resilient and Climate-Neutral City in the Temperate Climate Zone

Antoszewski

Krzyżaniak

Świerk

2022

IJERPH

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The urban heat island (UHI) effect is the main problem regarding a city’s climate. It is the main adverse effect of urbanization and negatively affects human thermal comfort levels as defined by physiological equivalent temperature (PET) in the urban environment. Blue and green infrastructure (BGI) solutions may mitigate the UHI effect. First, however, it is necessary to understand the problem from the degrading side. The subject of this review is to identify the most essential geometrical, morphological, and topographical parameters of the urbanized environment (UE) and to understand the synergistic relationships between city and nature. A four-stage normative procedure was used, appropriate for systematic reviews of the UHI. First, one climate zone (temperate climate zone C) was limited to unify the design guidelines. As a result of delimitation, 313 scientific articles were obtained (546 rejected). Second, the canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was performed for the obtained data. Finally, our research showed the parameters of the UE facilities, which are necessary to mitigate the UHI effect. Those are building density and urban surface albedo for neighborhood cluster (NH), and distance from the city center, aspect ratio, ground surface albedo, and street orientation for street canyon (SC), as well as building height, material albedo, and building orientation for the building structure (BU). The developed guidelines can form the basis for microclimate design in a temperate climate. The data obtained from the statistical analysis will be used to create the blue-green infrastructure (BGI) dynamic modeling algorithm, which is the main focus of the future series of articles.

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The Urban Heat Island Effect in Dutch City Centres: Identifying Relevant Indicators and First Explorations

Cited by 4 publications

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Regionalist Principles to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect

Regionalist Principles to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect

Integrating Urban Heat Assessment in Urban Plans

The Future of Climate-Resilient and Climate-Neutral City in the Temperate Climate Zone

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