To Assess the Effectiveness of Planning Techniques Mitigation Measures in Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effects
Author - AR. Omik Agrawal1, Vaishali Sharma2 [0809AR201062]
School of Architecture, IPS Academy, Indore, MP, India.
ABSTRACT
High temperature in the city centers than its surroundings known as the Urban Heat island (UHD) effect, which causing discomfort to the urban dwellers in the summer time is gaining much attention around the world because the wc getting urbanized as it advances in technology. Alterations of area, improper urban planning, air pollution, etc. causing this increasingly growing phenomenon and it is accountable for human discomfort, human casualties and decline climate. in this paper, an attempt has been taken to review various measures to encounter UHI effect and the process these strategies work is described with diagrams. Using high albedo materials and pavements, green vegetation green roofs, urban planning, pervious pavements, shade trees and existence of water bodies in city areas are the potential mitigation strategies on which discussion is done in this paper with the limitations. Green vegetation seems to be the effective measure and other strategies can play a major role under proper condition. Rapid growth of population and resulting urbanization is gaining momentum where urban areas are developed in significant proportion in India leading to changes in existing landscape, buildings, roads, and other supporting infrastructure. Such a change replaces open land and vegetation in the form of permeable surfaces with concrete surfaces which are impermeable and dry in nature which leads the formation of urban heat islands whereby urban region experience warmer temperatures than their adjacent rural surroundings. Such heat island effect increases energy consumption in urban areas along with other negative impacts. The authors of the present paper focus оn reduction of heat island effect in urban areas along with compatible strategies in Indian conditions partly to address higher energy consumptions and partly to reduce other negative impacts being caused on account of such heat island effect. the authors have carried out a case study of a Jaipur a pink city of India.
KEYWORDS: Urban heat island, Mitigation, Planning techniques, Green Infrastructure, Reduction strategies, Energy savings.
