Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

NH Wong, CL Tan, DD Kolokotsa… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The absence of vegetation in urban areas contributes to the establishment of the urban heat
island, markedly increasing thermal stress for residents, driving morbidity and mortality …

A comprehensive review of different types of green infrastructure to mitigate urban heat islands: Progress, functions, and benefits

H Shao, G Kim - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change and rapid urbanization increase/amplify urban heat islands (UHIs). Green
infrastructure (GI) is an effective and popularly strategy used to moderate UHIs. This paper …

Effects of tree plantings and aspect ratios on pedestrian visual and thermal comfort using scaled outdoor experiments

T Chen, H Pan, M Lu, J Hang, CKC Lam, C Yuan… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban trees ameliorate heat stress for urban dwellers. However, it is difficult to quantitatively
assess the integrated impacts of tree planting and street layouts on visual and thermal …

[HTML][HTML] 50 grades of shade

A Middel, S AlKhaled, FA Schneider… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
50 Grades of Shade in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 102 Issue 9
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Effect of tree cover and tree species on microclimate and pedestrian comfort in a residential district in Iran

S Teshnehdel, H Akbari, E Di Giuseppe… - Building and …, 2020 - Elsevier
According to the challenge of global warming, trees play an effective role in reducing heat
islands and improving thermal comfort. In this study, the impact of urban greening on …

Planning for spatial equity-A performance based approach for sustainable urban drainage systems

D La Rosa, V Pappalardo - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
There is a rising demand to use nature and natural processes to address a different range of
urban issues, especially when looking at the risk of pluvial flood associated with climate …

[HTML][HTML] Optimized greenery configuration to mitigate urban heat: A decade systematic review

J Fu, K Dupre, S Tavares, D King… - Frontiers of Architectural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban vegetation is a nature-based solution for cooling cities. Under global warming and
urban population growth, it is essential to optimize urban vegetation configuration in the …

Synergies and trade-offs in ecosystem services from urban and peri‑urban forests and their implication to sustainable city design and planning

J Cueva, IA Yakouchenkova, K Fröhlich… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reducing trade-offs among ecosystem services (ES) from urban and peri‑urban forests
(UPF) is crucial for human wellbeing. We performed spatial analyses and quantified the …

Pedestrians' behavior based on outdoor thermal comfort and micro-scale thermal environments, Austin, TX

SW Kim, RD Brown - Science of the total environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Cities have faced rapid urbanization, which has changed the impact of the micro-thermal
environment on residents' thermal comfort level. Therefore, planners need to understand the …

Planning method of centralized greening in high-rise residential blocks based on improvement of thermal comfort in summer

Y Yang, D Zhou, Y Wang, X Meng, Z Gu, D Xu… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-rise residential blocks have been built to solve the problem of an urban population
surge due to economic development. However, many residential blocks reach only the lower …