Combining environmental and social dimensions in the typomorphological study of urban resilience to heat stress
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

Over the past years, cities have become more prone to extreme and frequent heatwaves. In this regard, urban form plays an important role and several typomorphological classifications have been developed to describe the urban form characteristics that can exacerbate heat stress and influence people's health and comfort negatively (i.e. the environmental dimension of heat-stress resilience). Nevertheless, evidence from past heatwave disasters indicates that other urban form characteristics, not included in existing typomorphological classifications, can significantly affect heat-stress resilience by influencing the conditions of social interaction and the state of social ties and solidarities in urban neighborhoods (i.e. the social dimension). Therefore, this paper proposes a broader approach combining the aforementioned environmental and social dimensions in the classification of urban form types; and demonstrates its application in a real-world case by developing a data-driven typomorphological classification that complements existing ones with the missing social dimension. The results showed the possibility of numerically identifying neighborhood types that, through distinct urban form characteristics, have different potentials for enhancing the social dimension of heat-stress resilience. This has direct planning and design relevance as the quantifiable characteristics of these types can be translated into guidelines/rules and incorporated into local regulations/codes.

Social interaction

Typomorphology

Heat stress

Local climate zone (LCZ)

Urban form

Urban resilience

Författare

Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky

Università Iuav di Venezia (IUAV)

Jorge Gil

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Stadsbyggnad

Meta Berghauser Pont

Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Stadsbyggnad

Sustainable Cities and Society

2210-6707 (ISSN)

Vol. 83 103971

Ämneskategorier

Arkitektur

Landskapsarkitektur

Kulturgeografi

DOI

10.1016/j.scs.2022.103971

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2022-06-17