Urban Cooling Framework for Jaipur

This urban cooling framework is a planning approach to bundle sustainable and equitable cooling solutions for rapidly transforming urban regions in a warming world. It involves safeguarding existing green and blue infrastructure while integrating time-tested passive design principles with innovative energy and technology solutions for the modern city. This sets a platform for spatial and technological integration for cooling which could be adopted in GIS-based master plans to ensure energy security, cooling equity and local co-benefits of better liveability, air pollution and heat mitigation.

This work is a continuation of the Heat Toolkit for Planning and Design of Habitat in Climate Risked Times which gave a methodology to evaluate heat stress at the city, neighbourhood and local scales based on the impact of land-use intensity (private vehicles, air conditioners, industries, etc.) and anthropogenic activities. 

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