Design-integrated Urban Heat Island analysis tool and workflow : development and application

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a well-studied phenomenon broadly attributed to human activities that transform open terrain into cityscapes. Among global 21st-century concerns, projected trends in population growth, urbanization, and regional climate change could exacerbate the warming in cities and intensify the UHI effect. Yet, microclimate analysis essential to assessing UHI intensity is often neglected, resulting in poor planning practices with adverse effects on health, comfort and energy use within cities. With buildings responsible for substantial quantities of global energy consumption and carbon emissions, this context demands climate-responsive design to achieve better-performing cities. The UHI effect presents an urban design challenge, but only recently has there been a platform for design workflow integration.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2019

Author dc:creator

• Awino, Hellen Rose Anyango.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Leslie K. Norford.

• Architecture.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123577

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123577