Lecture

Urban Planning: Climate Change Effects

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Description

This lecture discusses the various effects of climate change on urban areas, focusing on African cities. It covers topics such as temperature rise, sea level and river level increase, intensified rainfall, and natural disasters like floods and droughts. The lecture also explores strategies for mitigation and adaptation in urban planning, emphasizing the importance of compact forms, urban mixity, public transportation, and pedestrian-friendly environments. It addresses the challenges of density planning, responses to different climates like hot and humid conditions, strong winds, and flooding. The lecture concludes with a discussion on urban form planning strategies to address climate challenges, including building height, street orientation, green spaces, and water bodies.

In MOOC

African cities I, An introduction to urban planning

The course focuses solely on African cities, and while these can serve as examples for cities in the South, or indeed all cities, we do our utmost to put the issues back into an African context.

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Ontological neighbourhood

Anthropology

Urbanism: Topics in urbanism

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility.

Theories of urban planning

Planning theory is the body of scientific concepts, definitions, behavioral relationships, and assumptions that define the body of knowledge of urban planning. There are nine procedural theories of planning that remain the principal theories of planning procedure today: the Rational-Comprehensive approach, the Incremental approach, the Transformative Incremental (TI) approach, the Transactive approach, the Communicative approach, the Advocacy approach, the Equity approach, the Radical approach, and the Humanist or Phenomenological approach.

Compact city

The compact city or city of short distances is an urban planning and urban design concept, which promotes relatively high residential density with mixed land uses. It is based on an efficient public transport system and has an urban layout which – according to its advocates – encourages walking and cycling, low energy consumption and reduced pollution. A large resident population provides opportunities for social interaction as well as a feeling of safety in numbers and "eyes on the street".

Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters. Precipitation is usually distributed throughout the year but often does have dry seasons. The definition of this climate regarding temperature is as follows: the mean temperature of the coldest month must be below or depending on the isotherm, and there must be at least four months whose mean temperatures are at or above .

Climate change adaptation

Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change. These can be both current or expected impacts. Adaptation aims to moderate or avoid harm for people. It also aims to exploit opportunities. Humans may also intervene to help adjustment for natural systems. There are many adaptation strategies or options.They can help manage impacts and risks to people and nature. We can classify adaptation actions in four ways. These are infrastructural and technological; institutional; behavioural and cultural; and nature-based options.

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