Adapting to Urban Heat:

Professor Carmen Galán-Marín is a Full Professor in the Department of Building Technology at the University of Seville-Spain (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Sevilla). Professor Emanuele Naboni is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Seville, an Academic at the Norman Foster Institute, The Royal Danish Academy, and UNIPR. He consults internationally for urban and architectural firms. Professor Carlos Rivera-Gómez is a Full Professor in the Department of Building Construction at the University of Seville. Professor Matthaios Santamouris is a Scientia, Distinguished, Professor of High Performance Architecture at University of New South Wales.

• Part 1: SETTING THE STAGE FOR URBAN HEAT ADAPTATION1. Summary of contents2. Adapting to heatPart 2: UNDERSTANDING, MITIGATING AND ADAPTING TO URBAN OVERHEATING3. Urban Overheating. Impacts and Heat Mitigation Technologies4. Understanding Anticipatory Resilience in Urban and Architectural Design for Climate Change, Ecology, Health, and DecarbonizationPart 3: DESIGNING FOR URBAN HEAT ADAPTATION5. Design for Adapting Urban Microclimates and Enhancing User Comfort: Strategies for Heat at the Neighbourhood Scale6. Understanding the Interrelationships between Buildings, Urban Spaces, and Climate Change7. Understanding and Measuring the Cooling Performance of TreesPart 4: TOOLS FOR DECODING AND CODING URBAN HEAT8. The role of data science in developing heat-resilient communities9. From Urban Meteorological Networks to Adaptation in Amsterdam, Ghent, and Novi Sad 10. The Role of Using Remote Sensing Evaluating Urban Heat Adaptation Strategies Measures11. Multiscale Modelling Techniques and Experimental Monitoring of Heat12. Adapting to urban heat – On the use of urban weather files for assessing buildings’ overheatingPart 5: TOWARDS A REGENERATIVE FUTURE13. Conclusions