Abstract Cities increasingly recognize the importance of shade to reduce heat stress and adopt urban forestry plans with ambitious canopy goals. Yet, implementation tree often faces maintenance, water use, infrastructure challenges. Understanding performance natural nonnatural is critical support active management in built environment. We conducted hourly transects Tempe, Arizona, mobile human-biometeorological station MaRTy on hot summer days quantify efficacy various types. sampled...

Outdoor heat stress is a growing problem in cities during hot weather. City planners and designers require more pedestrian-centered approaches to understand sidewalk microclimates. Radiation loading, as quantified by mean radiant temperature (TMRT), key factor driving poor thermal comfort. Street trees provide shade consequently reduce pedestrian TMRT. However, placement of optimize the cooling they not yet well understood. We apply newly-developed TUF-Pedestrian model quantify impacts tree...

Designing cities for thermal comfort is an important priority in a warming and urbanizing world. As temperatures continue to break extreme heat records, it necessary develop test new approaches capable of tracking human sensations influenced by microclimate conditions, complex urban geometries, individual characteristics dynamic settings. Thermal walks are promising novel research method address this gap. During walk Phoenix, Arizona, USA, we examined relationships between the built...

Although the integration of sustainability, ecology, and design has been recognized as necessary by scientists practitioners, most transdisciplinary frameworks are not inclusive worldviews, paradigms, aims, processes, components for sustainability. Landscape sustainability science helps to focus scientist, scholar, practitioner, stakeholder efforts toward at a pivotal level; however, collaboration progress have slow. Significant potential exists be an integrative transformational methodology...

Quantifying ecosystem services in urban areas is complex. However, existing service typologies and modeling can provide a means towards understanding some key biophysical links between forests services. This project addresses broader concepts of sustainability by assessing the park system Phoenix, Arizona’s hot climate. aims to quantify demonstrate multiple provided Phoenix’s green infrastructure (i.e., system), including its air pollution removal values, carbon sequestration storage,...

Larson, K., E. Corley, R. Andrade, S. J. Hall, A. York, Meerow, P. Coseo, D. L. Childers, and Hondula. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services disservices: an approach to creating analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology Society 24(2):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10888-240207

Extreme climatic conditions cause a decrease in ecosystem services, the disruption of ecological balance, and damage to human populations, especially areas with socially vulnerable groups. Nature-based solutions applying blue-green infrastructure (BGI) against these negative impacts climate change have an important role planning sustainable cities. This study aims identify priority develop scenarios strategies for spatial understand tradeoffs approaches maximize benefits services provided by...

To build 21st century sustainable cities, officials are installing alternative infrastructure technologies to reduce atmospheric environmental problems such as the urban heat island (UHI). The purpose of this study is further our understanding how ground-level UHI mitigation strategies in compact areas impact air temperatures. term 'cool pavement' refers both reflective and porous pavements. While cool pavements identified strategies, we evaluated their in-situ effectiveness on surface Using...

Many cities aim to progress toward their sustainability and public health goals by increasing use of transit systems. However, without adequate protective infrastructure that provides thermally comfortable conditions for riders, it can be challenging reach these in hot climates. We took micrometeorological measurements surveyed riders about perceptions heat heat-coping behaviors at bus stops with a variety design attributes Phoenix, AZ, USA, during the summer 2018. identified coping made...

Urban heat islands (UHI) increase summer temperatures and can threaten human well-being during extreme events. Since urbanization plays a key role in UHI development, accurate quantification of land cover types is critical to their identification. This study examines how quantifying using both two- three-dimensional approaches affects an model’s explanatory power. Two-dimensional treat tree canopies as cover, whereas document the areas obscured under canopies. We compare accurately two...

Sustainability is the new lens that many planning educators and practitioners employ in their efforts. We taught an undergraduate service-learning studio focused on neighborhood sustainability Detroit, Michigan. To evaluate course, we identified four desirable learning outcomes based a modified environmental education framework. Students gained sense of personal investment challenges faced by community developed more nuanced understanding power relationships inherent these issues. This...

This article provides an overview and insights of challenges, potentials, recommendations teaching applying Participatory Design (PD) in design education including the students' point view through studying a case - Master Landscape Architecture studio course Arizona State University, U.S. Students collaborated with Mo'ili'ili community members Honolulu, Hawaii, for two semesters, to co-design renovations Old Stadium Park three phases PD process – field study & listening; engagement workshop...

Our service-learning course focused on a polluted and impoverished Detroit neighborhood taught all involved with the class-students, academics, practitioners-the powerful impact that studio immersions in communities can have learning outcomes for students.Through this experience, we learned order to make broad notions of sustainability more tangible students community residents, they must be enacted through lens localized issues.

Designing cities for thermal comfort is an important priority in a warming and urbanizing world. As continue to break extreme heat records, it necessary develop test new approaches capable of tracking human sensations influenced by microclimate conditions, complex urban geometries, individual characteristics perceptions dynamic settings. Thermal walks are promising novel research method address this gap. During walk Phoenix, Arizona, USA, we examined the relationships between built...

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