Architecture & Built Environment · Sustainable & Environmental Design
A topic within Sustainable & Environmental Design, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
2 works
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Explains why cities run hotter than their surroundings and sets out the building- and site-level interventions — reflective and vegetated surfaces, urban tree cover, cooler paving — that measurably lower those temperatures.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Argues that adapting cities to climate change requires redesigning infrastructure and buildings around compound and cascading risks together, because hazards such as heat, flooding and drought interact in dense settlements in ways single-hazard planning misses.
link checked 17 Sept 2026