A Study to Evaluate Urban Heat Mitigation Design Strategies, In Commercial Centers.

Abstract

The rapid rate of urbanization, especially continued growth and anthropogenic activities has given rise to numerous urban climate impacts across different cities round the world. In India most of the cities specifically those with commercial centers are more at risk of induced urban heat effects thanks to intense radiation during most of the year, resulting in increased atmospheric air temperature and outdoor/indoor discomfort. The auto – dependent planning of the town contributed negatively to the external thermal comfort and to people’s daily social lives. One in every of the largest challenges for cities with hot climate is to search out effective solution against the induced urban heat increase and to boost the outdoor thermal. Considering the present scenario, over half of the earth’s population resides in urban areas. The amount of urban inhabitants is predicted to grow exponentially, especially in developing countries. The enlarging urban population would require an extensive array of infrastructure, services, housing and jobs etc. The urban land expansion could be a threat to land supply, causing intra-growth of the traffic volumes and increment in adverse pressure on the environment and may become immensely unsustainable for any city. Thus, the need of the hour is to take measures on variety of indicators that have outreached critical levels, especially the UHI and subsequently responsible choices need to be made for the new future so-as to push human and environmental resilience as we all must heal this warming world.