Green Infrastructure for cool cities
This course is held in English
With global climate change in focus and increasing urban population trends, it is vital to reduce the intensity of urban heat island and adapt to the changing climate in cities. Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is a well-known and promising solution that can provide numerous adaptive measures to design and develop climate-resilient cities.
Teaching staff
- green cooling mechanisms at from micro to mesoscale,
- different types of green infrastructure such as parks, city trees, roof and facade greening,
- combinations with blue infrastructure under the focus of sponge cities,
- recommendations for optimizing green spaces in landscape architecture and planning
- techniques to monitor the effectivity of green infrastructure as well as
- limits and trade-offs of green infrastructure for cooling cities
After participating in this course, the students will be able to explain the mechanisms of local cooling and influencing factors and will be able to describe the effectiveness of different urban green infrastructure types in order to reduce the urban heat island. Furthermore, they will be able to critically assess the effectivity of urban green space solution and understand synergies and trade-offs.
In this seminar, each lecture will provide a brief overview of a key aspect related to green cities with presentations, group activities and discussions of current research studies. The study achievements will be 2-3 short presentations and the exams achievement will be an assignment about a specific key aspect of green infrastructure.
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