Abstract The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates the sustainability and well-being
challenges of extreme heat events. While city planning and design measures have been …

The wildland-urban interface (WUI) represents landscapes where human settlements
coexist with natural features. Trails within the WUI areas, valued for their ecological …

Polycentric urban structures are widely regarded as solutions to mitigating urban heat
islands (UHI). However, few studies clarified the influences of morphological and functional …

The concept of self-containment in new towns has been widely discussed from social and
economic perspectives. However, localized interpretations within the context of China's …

As urbanization advances, the issue of urban heat islands (UHIs) grows increasingly
serious, with UHIs gradually transitioning into regional urban heat islands. There is still a …

Traditional methods for assessing urban thermal environments (UTEs) often rely on GIS and
remote sensing data, suffering from data limitations in coverage, accuracy, and availability …

Block thermal environments affect public health and the sustainable development of cities.
However, the study of spatial heterogeneity of block morphology in thermal environments …

In our contemporary cities, infrastructures face a diverse range of risks, including those
caused by climatic events. The availability of monitoring technologies such as remote …

Changes in land cover by rapid urbanization have diminished the cooling effect of urban
green spaces (UGS), exacerbating the upward trend of land surface temperature (LST). A …

With the frequent occurrence of extreme rainstorms in global cities, understanding
differences in social resilience is crucial for constructing climate-adaptive communities …