Optimizing the co-benefits of food desert and urban heat mitigation through community garden planning

Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 226, P. 104488 - 104488

Published: June 17, 2022

Urban community gardens can reduce food insecurity and serve as green spaces alleviating extreme temperatures. Such co-benefit synergy may prove especially significant for arid-land metropolises. Despite these synergistic roles, planning is largely undertaken in an ad-hoc manner. To date, few studies have addressed the full potential (co-benefits) of developing urban vacant land into garden-green spaces. We this a spatially-optimized way, model seeking to mitigate desert heat, applied it fast sprawling Phoenix metro-area, Arizona (USA). Examining more than 5,000 parcels spaces, we found that optimal number locations needed different mitigation goals vary significantly. In required heat about twice because high-temperature areas are prevalent expansive semi-arid environment compared relatively small low income, areas. Furthermore, existing 76 were mostly clustered around cores, leaving two-thirds metro-area underserved. If sited co-benefits gained from could be doubled, covering high-need neighborhoods. Integrating fine-scale parcel data, our identified high garden-greening sites priority neighborhoods with precision not capable conventional methods. Our findings demonstrate particular importance avoid clustering ensure equal access local outdoor cooling benefits.

Language: Английский

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Space-time dynamics in hazard exposure analysis: smartphone locations show pedestrian routes are inflexible to extreme heat events

npj natural hazards., Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2(1)

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

Language: Английский

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Revealing Key Factors of Heat-related Illnesses using Geospatial Explainable AI Model: A Case Study in Texas, USA

Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106243 - 106243

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Heat-Related Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations in Florida (2005–2021): A Bayesian Change Point Detection Approach

Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 106288 - 106288

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Estimating cooling loads of Arizona State University buildings using microclimate data and machine learning

Journal of Building Engineering, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 64, P. 105705 - 105705

Published: Dec. 9, 2022

Language: Английский

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