Ravnikar, Živa and Bahillo, Alfonso and Goličnik Marušić, Barbara (2023) Microclimate-Related Human Comfort as Aspect in Urban Planning: Indication of NBS Interventions to Increase Quality of Cycling Networks. LET IT GROW, LET US PLAN, LET IT GROW. Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Resilient Smart Green and Blue Cities. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2023, 28th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 1041-1049. ISSN 2521-3938
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Abstract
Climate change and environmental challenges affecting cities encourage them to reduce negative impacts of environmental challenges on human comfort and respond with sustainable spatial solutions such as Nature-based solutions (NBS). While spatial analyses are often limited in analysing dynamics between space–environmental characteristics and human comfort, there is a challenge to exploit new technologies (ICT) as the potential for the development of more inclusive analyses and monitoring. This paper reflects on one particular portable device for a simultaneous dynamic microclimatic data gathering, and by a protocol for microclimate street assessment evaluates microclimate-related comfort of cycling lanes in Ljubljana, Slovenia. By identifying correlations between spatial elements and microclimate conditions in different spatial settings, the study defines cycling lane sections of various levels of comfortability. The results suggest that ICT innovations for in-situ measurements can help urban analytics to gather and urban planners to interpret detailed microclimate-related information and can help to assess places according to microclimate issues such as high temperature, poor air quality, incrised humidity, but also disturbing noise levels. Collected data are interpreted within human comfort zones and can be linked with rates/levels of comfort. Thus, the paper contributes to urban planning by the provision of fine-grain localised data, with precise data spatial and temporal resolution. As the gathered data is geopositioned, it can be presented on a map enabling a linkage of environmental conditions within a spatial context.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Urban planning, Nature-based solutions, Information and communication technologies, Human comfort, Microclimate |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Depositing User: | REAL CORP Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2023 14:04 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2023 17:35 |
| URI: | http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/1028 |
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