Urban Cooling: Table of Contents A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles

Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.

A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.

#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability

Urban Heat Islands A blog about the environment, sustainability, ecology, ethics & politics, by Glenn Vowles

Heatwave again possible on Monday. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside due to human activities: the #UrbanHeatIslandEffect (see the temperature maps of London...to see why the term island is used). conserverliving.blogspot.com/2013/07/urba...ml

Auckland environmentalist wins battle to protect urban style jungle Mark van Kaathoven has worked on the berm gardens outside his home and neighbouring properties for more than three decades.

Love this. Why can't #berms be gardens and meadows, with wonderful insect communities and birdlife instead of sterile, mowed within an inch of their life, grass. 👏
Auckland environmentalist wins battle to protect urban style jungle
#UrbanHeatIslandEffect #SpongeCities
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

How Do we Measure the Heat Island Effect? It's getting hot out there, let's measure and track it.

My latest on Substack is all about the tools used to measure and track extreme heat in our cities and how they are enabling a new generation of researchers & planners to come up with policy and design solutions.

#UrbanHeatIslandEffect #Urbanheatisland #climatechange #Urbanplanning #Urbandesign

I love stories like this, great people making important changes, something easily replicable worldwide #soilhealth #UrbanHeatIslandEffect #UncommonCourage youtu.be/kPrb66VbumM?...

NZ cities are getting hotter: 5 things councils can do now to keep us cooler when summer comes Converting open-air car parks and creating green cooling corridors on transport routes is an easy and affordable way to beat the city heat as the climate changes.

After spending a few days in Auckland city last summer I can vouch the #UrbanHeatIslandEffect is alive and well.
NZ cities are getting hotter: 5 things councils can do now to keep us cooler when summer comes.

theconversation.com/nz-cities-ar...

Watch the full-length MEERTALK this month, June 2025, with Prof. Xuhui Lee, where he discusses #urbanmicroclimates and #greenspacemitigation.

🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkHW...

#urbanheatisland #urbanheatislandeffect #climatechange #climatescience #heatmitigation #climateaction #climateadaptation

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'At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees'

reasonstobecheerful.world/green-corrid... #UrbanHeatIslandEffect #Medellín #Colombia

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Greening the World's Cities With Behavioral Science — with Environmental Engineer Katie Patrick, explaining the multidimensional risks of urban heat islands and what we can do.

youtu.be/qismvRYAPhQ #UrbanHeatIslandEffect #Cities #Health #Complexity #Climate #Heat #Science #Design #Urbandesign

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'Cities can also slow the pace of urban heat island-driven warming trends by taking sometimes simple steps. Research shows that the health benefits of urban heat island reduction could be substantial' #Urbanheatislandeffect #cities #climate #health

Urban Cooling | Adam L Tate | Substack Welcome to the Urban Cooling Institute. Here we explore design strategies and technologies for combating the Urban Heat Island effect. A how to guide on ways to make our cities cool and make our citie...

Hey BlueSky! Follow me here for ways we can fight the #UrbanHeatIslandEffect through better #UrbanDesign #Planning #Architectire and the integration of the built environment and the natural environment.

NYC’s Hottest Bus Stops: NASA DEVELOP and Transportation Alternatives Release New Report and Data Analysis  — Transportation Alternatives People living near the city’s hottest bus stops are 56% more likely to be Latino, 24% more likely to be Black, and 40% more likely to be non-white than people living within a quarter-mile of the…

Well damn, #NYC has the worst #UrbanHeatIslandEffect in America too?!

“Nowhere in America is the ‘urban heat island effect’ – when limited green space and widespread asphalt traps heat – worse than in New York City, where heat kills over 350 New Yorkers every year.”

New publication: Some like it hot: adaptation to the urban heat island in common #dandelion, by @ywoudstra @kjfverhoeven and others. #urbanheatislandeffect #floweringphenology #climatechange #urbanization
https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae040

The spread of (reflective) greenhouses in south-east Spain has led to a measurable (0.3 C) fall in local temperatures #urbanheatislandeffect