Learning to Chill: The Role of Design Schools and Professional Training to Improve Urban Climate and Urban Metabolism

Mohammad Taleghani; Azadeh Montazami; Daniela  Perrotti

doi:10.3390/en13092243

Learning to Chill: The Role of Design Schools and Professional Training to Improve Urban Climate and Urban Metabolism

Mohammad Taleghani
, Azadeh Montazami
, Daniela Perrotti

University of Salford
University of Louvain

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Abstract

The increased frequency of heat-related mortality and morbidity in urban environments indicates the importance of urban climate studies. As most of the world's population lives in cities, the education of designers, planners and policy makers is crucial to promote urban sustainability This paper, firstly, focuses on the different factors causing the urban heat islands in large cities. Secondly, it considers how these factors are reflected in higher education programmes. Examples are shown from courses in UK higher education, explaining the common software tools used for simulating urban spaces, and student field measurements are drawn on to illustrate how urban climate studies are included in higher education curricula. Urban metabolism is used to conceptualise the main approach to systemic resource-use assessments and as a holistic framework to investigate the main drivers of the urban heat island phenomenon. To sum up, this paper reflects on the importance of training climatically-aware graduates from design schools.

Original language	English
Article number	2243
Number of pages	14
Journal	Energies
Volume	13
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en13092243
Publication status	Published - 3 May 2020

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SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Design schools
Material flow analysis
Resource management
Surface properties
Urban heat islands
Urban metabolism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Optimization
Energy (miscellaneous)
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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