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Urban Design Climate Workshop (UDCW) Urban Land Institute report published
Urban Design Climate Workshop (UDCW) Urban Land Institute report published: Partnership between ULI NY-NYIT-UCCRN Download Report
Science-informed urban design strategies have the potential to reduce urban temperatures and improve quality of life, according to a new Urban Land Institute report, Urban Design Climate
Workshop: From Climate Science to Climate Action in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The new report, made possible by contributions from project partners as well as support from the New York Community Trust, is based on a 6-month long Urban Design Climate Workshop sponsored by ULI New York, in partnership with NYIT Urban Design, the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) – a global consortium of climate experts, and the Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice (GNCJ) – a community-based advocacy group.
The Urban Design Climate Workshop, and the new summary report, focuses on how innovative land use and adaptive strategies can improve quality of life by reducing the negative impacts of extreme heat and better managing stormwater-induced flooding and sea level rise. Graduate urban design students at NYIT worked in partnership with the UDCW Team led by Assoc. Professor Jeffrey Raven:
- Evaluating heat maps in the Gowanus neighborhood and visualized the expected temperatures by 2050 under “business as usual” and best practice “heat-resilient” land use and development scenarios.
- Mapping current “hotspots” in Gowanus, showing where the highest local temperatures are present and where heat mitigation and heat stress reduction is most urgent;
- Proposing typologies for residential and commercial buildings designed to maintain safe indoor temperatures for occupants and limiting the ways buildings can raise temperatures in their immediate surroundings
- Identifying opportunities to achieve both extreme heat and flood mitigation in areas of Gowanus that are at-risk from both hazards
- Illustrating how incorporating “heat-resilient” best practices into zoning and development regulations could help to measurably decrease urban temperatures in Gowanus
- Suggesting pathways for incorporating these best practices in the short, medium, and long terms.
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