This document summarizes a presentation on green infrastructure and city cooling. It discusses how global temperatures have risen to their highest levels on record and how urban areas are particularly vulnerable to heat due to the urban heat island effect. It then defines green infrastructure as a network of multifunctional green spaces that can provide environmental and quality of life benefits. Different types of green infrastructure are described, including green roofs, rain gardens, urban farming, and green spaces. The presentation concludes with an activity where attendees will select green infrastructure techniques to apply to a sample building site plan and consider benefits like health, ecology and cost. The overall presentation promotes green infrastructure as a strategy for making cities more resilient to rising temperatures from climate change.

1. Muhammad Tariq, (Assistant Professor)
Architect & Urban ecologist
Green Infrastructure
in your building
design: A strategy for
city cooling

2. CONTENTS
Speaker Introduction
01
What is City Cooling &
Urban heat resilience?
02
What is Green Infrastructure?
03
What are the types of GI?
04
05 What is Urban greening Factor?
06 Activity

3. Tariq!
An Architect, erasmus mundus joint
masters scholar in “Urban Climate
& Sustainability” 2021-2023 &
Assistant Professor

4. Why city cooling?
We are living in an increasingly warming world.
According to the US National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, 2020 was the hottest year
on record, with the average global surface
temperature around 1.3 degrees Celsius (°C)
higher than the late 19th-century average.
(Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling
Handbook for Cities).

5. Of the world population
living in cities
By 2050 it's projected that more
than two-thirds of the world
population will live in urban
areas. Around 7 billion people
will live in urban areas in 2050.
(UN) BIODIVERSITY LOSS
WWF publication reveals
an average decline of
69% in species
populations since 1970
50%
69%

6. —(Zhao et al. 2021)
“A model by
an international research team
estimates that by 2100, cities
across the world could warm as
much as 4°C on average”

7. THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF WARMING CITIES
Health
According to
the World Health Organization,
the number of people
exposed to heatwaves jumped
by 125 million between
2000 and 2016.
POWER SYSTEM
IMPACTS
The escalating demand for
space cooling is already
putting pressure on electricity
systems
Economic impact
analysis of the world’s 1,692
largest cities,
suggests that overheated cities
face climate change
costs that are more than twice
those of the rest of the
world because of the urban heat
island effect (Estrada,
Wouter Botzen and Tol 2017)
CLIMATE IMPACTS
The projected
increase in global electricity
consumption for space
cooling will result in 18 per cent of the
total increase
in global carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions between
2016 and 2050

8. (Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities).
IMPACTS OF HEAT ARE
NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED
Underlying socioeconomic
inequities in cities make the
challenge of cooling even more
complex.

9. What is Green infrastructure?
Green infrastructure is a network of multi-
functional green space and other green
features, which can deliver quality of life and
environmental benefits for communities.
(London Town and Country Planning
Association)

10. Ecosystem services
(Green Infrastructure for landscape planning by Gary Austin)

11. Types of Green Infrastructure
(A CATALOGUE OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN RESILIENCE)

12. GI on building scale benifits & a checklist for workshop
(A CATALOGUE OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN RESILIENCE)

13. 1.Green spaces
(A CATALOGUE OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN RESILIENCE)

14. 2.Urban farming
Urban farming is a way for people
to grow crops for personal
consumption or to sell locally and
beyond.
According to the National Logistics Plan,
2.4 trillion tkm (ton-kilometer) of food
freight were transported throughout the
year in 2015, 65% of which was by land
and 26% by waterway. This is a very long
journey to get to the supermarket shelves.
Referred as food miles

15. The Pasona Urban Farm is a nine-storey office building in Tokyo to allow employees
to grow and harvest their own food at work
https://officechai.com/offices/pasona-japan-office-grows-own-food/

16. 3 30 300 rule

18. Bioretention practices, such as rain gardens, are
landscaped depressions that treat on-site stormwater
discharge from impervious surfaces

20. Worshop activity
Vegeted roofs,
vegetated walls, Urban
farming
GI TYPE 1
Rain water harvesting,
rain gardens, bio swales
Water features
GI TYPE 2
Green spaces, gardens,
forests
GI TYPE 3
Site: CECOS Building

21. Urban greening factor, UGF for your master plan
Different landscape cover types in
a development plan are assigned
scores between 1 and 0, where 1
is natural vegetation and 0 is for
completely sealed surfaces.

22. IMPORTANT TASKS
TASK 1
Bring 22x28 sheet per
group, sticky notes,
markers, etc.
TASK 2
Select your GI type &
paste relavent
technique where you
think suitable.
TASK 3
Think on heath benefit,
ecological aspect &
cost etc.
TASK 4 Pin on wall

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