Visualization of the Galaxy Plan’s urban heat island effect. Note: this is not a detailed studyThe communities of architects/
planners/ city-builders and greenbelters must come together in Auroville to
manifest the city of the future (emphasis on “come together”). In contemporary
urban planning, planners are now realizing since several decades the critical
need of integrated green spaces to reduce the ‘urban heat island effect’ and
produce bioclimatically designed, livable cities with reliable potable water
resources. (The urban heat island effect is basically a bubble of concentrated
heat around cities, formed by the reradiation of shortwave heat from hard
surfaces that cannot escape the atmosphere.)
I myself worked nearly 20 years ago in the
first movement of greenroofs in New York City… in a time when every rooftop was
asphalt-black, and New York was a hot, inhuman and environmentally unconscious
city. But cities can and do change, mostly by necessity – as the last 20 years
ha...
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Thank You Lara for this meaningful article :) I sincerely hope all the concerned groups and individual can work together towards the best harmonious development of our township :)