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Urban heat islands are a new type of microclimatic phenomenon that causes a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to surrounding areas. The phenomenon has been enforced by the current trend towards climate change. Although experts consider urban heat islands an urgent European Union public health concern, there are too few policies that address it. The EU carried out a project to learn more about this phenomenon through pilot initiatives. The pilots included feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of urban heat islands. The pilots were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padova, and Vienna. The feasibility studies carried out in these pilot areas focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterised by the presence of historical old towns.
List of contents
Part I The Urban Heat Island - Evidence, Measures andTools.- Forecasting Models for Urban Warming in Climate Change.- AssessmentIndication and Gold Standard.- Methodologies for UHI Analysis.- DecisionSupport Systems for Urban Planning.- Part II Pilot Actions in European Cities.-Counteracting Urban Heat Islands: Solutions for European Cities.
About the author
Francesco
Musco,
Francesco Musco (1973), architect and urban planner, PhD in Analysis and Governance
of Sustainable Development (Ca’ Foscari, Venice), Associate professor in Urban and
Regional Planning at the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment,
University Iuav of Venice. Currently
teaches “Environmental Planning”, “Territorial Design for Climate Change” and
“Urban Design”. Dean of
the EU Erasmus Mundus Master Course on MSP Maritime Spatial Planning
(2013-2019). Member
of the academic board of the European Master in Planning and policies for the
City, Environment and Landscape (www.iuav.it/cap) and of PhD program in
“Planning and public policies for the territory”. Supporter
of a multidisciplinary approach to city and spatial planning, during the last
years he finalized his research activity to the relationship between planning
and sustainability, with particular attention to the implementation of
bottom-up public policies to define sustainable development in local contexts. He is
responsible of international agreements of scientific collaboration with Drexel
University (Philadelphia, US), John Hopkins University (Baltimore, US),
University of Reading (UK), University of Seville (ES), Future University
(Khartum, Sudan). Scientific
coordinator of several projects granted by competitive bids, among these:
· City
Action Plans in Climate Adaptation: a Global Comparative Analysis (2011)
(Santander Foundation, Madrid)· Naterg -
Developing with Nature (EU South East Europe Program) (2009-2011)· UHI Development
and application of mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures for
counteracting the global Urban Heat Islands phenomenon in climate change
scenario” (EU Central Europe Program) (2011- 2014);·
Sustainable
development and new asset of territorial planning in the wetland area Humedal
de Mantequilla” (2012-2015), (UNDP and Veneto Region);·
ADRIPLAN
(2013-2015) Adriatic Ionian Maritime Spatial Planning (EU DG Mare)·
URBAN_Wins
(2015-2018) H2020 Waste 2015 6-b (EU Horizon 2020)
Member
of AESOP Association of European School of Planning.
prof.
Francesco Musco
Iuav
University of Venice
S. Croce
1957
30135
Venice (Italy)
francesco.musco@iuav.it
