PRIMER FOR COOL CITIES: REDUCING EXCESSIVE URBAN HEAT
Cities are getting hotter as a result of growing urbanization and global climate change. The negative impacts of temperature increases are significant and touch nearly every aspect of urban life. Protecting populations from extreme heat is one of the key resiliency and sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century. Successfully implementing measures to cool cities will lead to many benefits, including for health, well-being, productivity, air quality, and energy systems. Urban cooling solutions can be deployed in the short term to help mitigate the risk of rising urban air temperatures. This primer and its appendix, Cool City Case Studies: Reducing Urban Heat, provide practical, actionable guidance and examples for implementers, policy makers, and planners tasked with mitigating urban heat impacts. The report covers: a. the challenges of rising temperatures for cities, and for urban design more broadly
b. actions and solutions that can be deployed at the building, community, and city levels to reduce excess heat and promote thermal comfort
c. the benefits of an integrated deployment of urban cooling solutions at scale
d. a framework for an inclusive process to develop urban cooling strategies
e. the benefits of heat action plans to protect residents from periods of extreme temperatures
examples, results, and recommendations from urban cooling policies and actions implemented around the world. Solutions Exist to Help Cities Address Rising Temperatures Just as rising heat creates substantial and varied challenges to urban life, there are broad societal benefits that accrue from adopting measures to cool down urban temperatures. Cooler cities result in positive impacts on human health, air quality, productivity, student learning, tourism, public safety, energy use and expenditures, and quality of life. Cities can address rising air temperatures by adopting a mix of urban cooling solutions covered in detail in Section 3 of the primer. There is an urgency to transition away from the technologies, materials, and designs that currently define our cities toward the cooling solutions described in Figure ES. The choices cities make when deciding where and how to develop their urban areas and the technologies and materials they employ can be locked in for years (for building infrastructure, for example) and as long as centuries (for urban design and planning).
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