Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

Embedding climate resilient development principles in planning, urban design, and architecture means ensuring that transformation of the built environment helps achieve carbon neutrality, effective adaptation, and well-being for people and nature. Planners, urban designers, and architects are called to bridge the domains of research and practice and evolve their agency and capacity, developing methods and tools consistent across spatial scales to ensure the convergence of outcomes towards targets. Shaping change necessitates an innovative action-driven framework with multi-scale analysis of urban climate factors and co-mapping, co-design, and co-evaluation with city stakeholders and communities. This Element provides analysis on how urban climate factors, system efficiency, form and layout, building envelope and surface materials, and green/blue infrastructure affect key metrics and indicators related to complementary aspects like greenhouse gas emissions, impacts of extreme weather events, spatial and environmental justice, and human comfort. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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• Authors: Martha Barata, Sanjukkta Bhaduri, Christian Braneon, Ren Chao, David Corbett, Corbett David, Maria Dombrov, David Driskell, Driskell David, Ursula Eicker, Eicker Ursula, John E. Fernandez, Fernandez John E., Jing Gan, Anna Hürlimann, Gan Jing, Ilana Judah, Mattia Federico Leone, Michael Neuman, Barbara Norman, Norman Barbara, Dennis Pamlin, Minal Pathak, Jeffrey Raven, Jeffrey Leone Raven, Ren Chao, Rob Roggema, Roggema Rob, Rosenzweig Cynthia, Pourya Salehi, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Anne Shellum, William Solecki, Joel Towers, Cristina Visconti
• Assisted by: Martha Barata (Editor of the series), Maria Dombrov (Editor of the series), Minal Pathak (Editor of the series), Cynthia Rosenzweig (Editor of the series), Aliyu Salisu Barau (Editor of the series), William Solecki (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781009643931
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0964393-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Climate Change and Cities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Urban & municipal planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design