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Urban Adaptation & Sustainability The Firs Botanical Grounds October 20 2010. CLIMATE SCIENCE & URBAN DESIGN ESRC RES 062 23 2134 Michael Hebbert (SED), Vladimir Jankovic (CHSTM) Fionn MacKillop (SED). Introductory. city planning and climate adaptation a new agenda
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Urban Adaptation & SustainabilityThe Firs Botanical GroundsOctober 20 2010 CLIMATE SCIENCE & URBAN DESIGN ESRC RES 062 23 2134 Michael Hebbert (SED), Vladimir Jankovic (CHSTM) Fionn MacKillop (SED)
Introductory city planning and climate adaptation a new agenda with long historical precedents
Introductory Feng Shue site selection in classical China
emergence of urban climatology Luke Howard (1812) Albert Kratzer (1937) Tim Oke (1976) Introductory
layers of the urban climate urban heat island urban boundary layer urban canopy layer Introductory
layers of urban design spatial strategy green infrastructure neighborhood design built/unbuilt pattern + density street & public realm design zoning & building codes Introductory
urban design shapes climate ! Q1: are designers aware ? Q2: do they act on it ? Introductory
Twenty month project in three parts 1 historical 2 comparative 3 applied Introductory
Longitudinal studies of knowledge transfer from climatology to policy Three global networks: IFHP WMO ISB Historical
International Federation of Housing and Planning (IFHP) founded 1913 based in The Hague Historical
October 1959 IFHP + CIB + ISB launch International Study Group for Urban and Building Climatology international symposia: Vienna (1965 and 1970), Stockholm (1972), Zurich (1974), Vienna (1976) etc etc . . . Yokohama (2009) Dublin (2012) Historical
1978: IFHP questionnaire sent to European HE institutions; 36% response rate – 90% negative 1980: IFHP booklet, Fundamental knowledge in urban and building climatology - unsolicited mail-out to 1,500 recipients detail: 40 entries on topic of rain, 70 on topic of wind etc. Historical
Historical IFHP (1980)
World Meteorological Organisation founded 1950 based in Geneva Historical
1951: creation of Commission for Climatology (CCl) 1971: CCl becomes Committee for Special Applications of Meteorology and Climatology (CoSAMC) - chair Helmut Landsberg 1976: publication of Urban Climatology and its Relevance to Urban Design Historical
Chandler (1976) Historical
1983 CoSAMC wound up 1985 WMO reviews its failure to promote role of climatology in built environment Urban dimension remains absent throughout WMO climate change initiatives prior to IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014) Historical
International Society for Biometeorology Founded Paris, 1956, by Solco S. Tromp (NL) and Frederick Sargent II (US) interdisciplinary learned society, wide range - vetinerary, medical, botanical, zoological, architectural, engineering etc Historical
1960 Urban and architectural working group ISB collaborations with WMO, WHO, IFHP and CIB, development of comfort and well-being measures Historical
1988 Study Group on Urban Climate Tim Oke (UBC) chair Sue Grimmond (Indiana) secretary 2000 breakaway group: International Association for Urban Climate - a virtual global network Historical
four cities: Stuttgart New York Tokyo Manchester Comparative
a municipal climatologist since 1936 observation networks, models, climate maps integration of climatological data to every scale of design Comparative - Stuttgart
a Comparative - New York
a Comparative - Tokyo
a Comparative - Manchester
Climate Science and Urban Design a historical and comparative studyESRC Grant Res - 062- 23 -2132