Mavrogianni, A., Davies, M., Batty, M., Belcher, S., Bohnenstengel, S., Carruthers, D., Chalabi, Z., Croxford, B., Demanuele, C., Evans, S., and others. (2011) The comfort, energy and health implications of London's urban heat island. Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 32 (1). pp. 35-52. ISSN 0143-6244. (doi:10.1177/0143624410394530) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:51311)
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Abstract
The urban heat island (UHI) is a well-known effect of urbanisation and is particularly
important in world megacities. Overheating in such cities is expected to be exacerbated in
the future as a result of further urban growth and climate change. Demonstrating and
quantifying the impact of individual design interventions on the UHI is currently difficult
using available software tools. The tools developed in the LUCID (‘The Development of a
Local Urban Climate Model and its Application to the Intelligent Design of Cities’) research
project will enable the related impacts to be better understood, quantified and addressed.
This article summarises the relevant literature and reports on the ongoing work of the
project.
Practical applications: There is a complex relationship between built form, urban
processes, local temperature, comfort, energy use and health. The UHI effect is significant
and there is a growing recognition of this issue. Developers and planners are seeking advice
on design decisions at a variety of scales based on scientifically robust, quantitative
methods. The LUCID project has thus developed a series of tools that (1) quantify the effect
of urbanisation processes on local environmental conditions, and (2) quantify the impact of
such conditions on comfort, energy use and health. The use of such tools is vital, both to
inform policy but also to be able to demonstrate compliance with it.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/0143624410394530 |
| Subjects: |
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences T Technology > TH Building construction |
| Institutional Unit: | Schools > School of Arts and Architecture > Architecture |
| Former Institutional Unit: |
Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > Kent School of Architecture and Planning Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > Kent School of Architecture and Planning
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| Depositing User: | Giridharan Renganathan |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2015 16:12 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2025 08:18 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51311 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
University of Kent Author Information
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