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Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action

Jeffrey Raven
Mattia Federico Leone
Sanjukkta Bhaduri
Christian Braneon
David Corbett
David Driskell
Ursula Eicker
John E. Fernandez
Gan Jing
Anna Hürlimann
Ilana Judah
Michael Neuman
Barbara Norman
Dennis Pamlin
Ren Chao
Rob Roggema
Pourya Salehi
Anne Shellum
Joel Towers
Cristina Visconti
William Solecki
Minal Pathak
Martha Barata
Aliyu Salisu Barau
Maria Dombrov
Cynthia Rosenzweig
May 2025
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    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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    May 2025
    Paperback
    9781009643931
    75 pages
    229 × 152 mm
    Not yet published - available from May 2025

    Table of Contents

    • List of Contributors
    • Series Preface
    • Foreword I – Kate Orff
    • Foreword II – Kongjian Yu
    • Foreword III – Clara Irazabal
    • Series Editors Introduction
    • Major Findings and Key Messages
    • 1. Introduction and Framing
    • 2. Research Informing Practice, Practice Informing Research
    • 3. Urban Transformation Through an Expanded Climate and Innovation Agenda
    • 4. Climate Resilient Urban Transformation
    • 5. Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation
    • 6. Embedding Environmental and Climate Justice in Planning and Design
    • 7. Capacity Building for Urban Decision Makers and Practitioners
    • 8. Metrics, Performance Indicators, and Tools
    • 9. Urban Design Climate Workshops (UDCW)
    • 10. Conclusions and Research Gaps
    • References.
      Contributors
    • Sara Artaega-Morales , Ione Avila-Palencia , Jole Lutzu , Bruno Barroca , Martina Kohler , Margot Pellegrino , Juliana Velez Duque , Darien Alexander Williams , Sean O'Donoghue, Maria Iaccarino , Enza Tersigni , Aliyu Salisu Barau , Enjoli Dominique Hall, Daphne Gondhalekar , Ken Doust , Martin Lehmann , Franco Montalto , Juan Camilo Osorio , Enza Tersigni , Mia Prall , Priska Marianne , Colin Marchenoir

    • Authors
    • Jeffrey Raven
    • Mattia Federico Leone
    • Sanjukkta Bhaduri
    • Christian Braneon
    • David Corbett
    • David Driskell
    • Ursula Eicker
    • John E. Fernandez
    • Gan Jing
    • Anna Hürlimann
    • Ilana Judah
    • Michael Neuman
    • Barbara Norman
    • Dennis Pamlin
    • Ren Chao
    • Rob Roggema
    • Pourya Salehi
    • Anne Shellum
    • Joel Towers
    • Cristina Visconti