Despite research on urban heat island (UHI) effect has increased exponentially over the last
few decades, a systematic review of factors contributing to UHI effect has scarcely been …

Climate change and its effect on human life and comfort have taken increase attraction. In
this paper effect of UHI is analyzed using quantitative thermal, temporal remote sensing and …

Retrieval of land surface temperature (LST) from satellite data allows to estimate the surface
urban heat island (SUHI) as the difference between the LST obtained in the urban area and …

Smart growth policy has been identified as a panacea to tackle a range of undesirable
outcomes of sprawl development. Various neighbourhood planning concepts have been …

Transit oriented development (TOD) has been identified as a key planning tool to limit
sprawl development and thereby to tackle a range of undesirable outcomes of cities …

Numerous studies have identified associations between the surface urban heat island
(SUHI) effect (ie, SUHI, hereinafter is referred to as UHI) and urban growth, particularly …

Globally, there is a rapid development of urban heat island (UHI) detection tools, and their
results can be accepted regardless of their accuracy in measuring the real impact of the …

Due to rapid industrialization and urban sprawl in the last few decades, the land use pattern
and its consumption takes place at a large scale that could lead to problems such as over …

The rapid urbanisation and expansion of the built environment in large cities are attracting
increasing attention among the global scientific community to understand the relationship …

When urban areas experience higher temperature than their surrounding rural areas, this
phenomenon is called the urban heat island (UHI) effect. UHI contributes to global warming …