The Urban Design Climate Workshop: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies to Confront Urban Climate Change
摘要
21st century urban design must configure densely occupied urban settlements that offset undesirable local outcomes through climate-sensitive urban design. To bridge between climate science and climate action, policymakers/stakeholders need tools and methods to identify, configure and evaluate evidence-based Urban Climate Factors at urban and local scales. The goal is to configure densely occupied urban settlements that offset undesirable local outcomes through climate-sensitive strategies. The challenge is configuring these districts to reduce the impact of increased urban heat island (UHI) and flooding due to the changing climate while enhancing an equitable, high-quality, low-carbon lifestyle. Enabling transformative climate action in cities requires expanding on the traditional influence and capabilities of urban planning and urban design. In response, we have developed a climate-driven planning process called the Urban Design Climate Workshop whose urban climate factors overlap with stakeholder-driven performance indicators.