It is a common belief that higher elevations are naturally cooler. In pristine landscapes, this rule holds firm. But what about urban environments? Humanity moves vast amounts of matter and energy, sometimes fundamentally altering the thermodynamic parameters of our habitat.

🛰️ I correlated summer Land Surface Temperature (LST) data across Calgary’s neighborhoods with the Canadian Medium-Resolution Digital Elevation Model (MRDEM). The chart below illustrates the relationship between "Average Elevation" and "Average Surface Temperature" specifically for established residential communities. As observed, this relationship is notably weak, even though a slight cooling trend persists. Based on my data analysis, elevation above sea level is not a key factor in cooling the city.

#Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #DataScience #ClimateAction #YYC #GreennesOfCalgary #ClimateEquity #EnvironmentalEquity #CityPlanning #RemoteSensing #RStats #Landsat #fossgis #DigitalElevationModel

The Conversation: How a new mapping tool helps Florida planners protect wildlife corridors as the state grows . “This online mapping platform helps decision-makers and conservationists understand how land across Florida fits together as a connected ecological network. Seeing this network alongside a suite of other related planning and conservation data can help them avoid impacts that would […]

Every time I see some player post a "Soviet Style city" on the Cities Skylines subreddits it always turns out to be an average European city with tons of greenery, parks and most things within walking distance.

Apparently "Having trees mixed in between white square housing blocks" = "communist".

#Gaming #CityPlanning #Europe #USA

Cities: Erasure or Echo? The Urbanist Dilemma

Hiroshima's reconstruction balances memorializing the past with modern, forward-looking urban design. Learn how this city blends history and progress.

#HiroshimaRebuild, #UrbanDesign, #CityPlanning, #HistoricalPreservation, #ModernArchitecture

https://newsletter.tf/hiroshima-urban-design-past-and-future/

Hiroshima's rebuilding is a mix of remembering the past and building for the future, showing a new way for cities to grow.

#HiroshimaRebuild, #UrbanDesign, #CityPlanning, #HistoricalPreservation, #ModernArchitecture
https://newsletter.tf/hiroshima-urban-design-past-and-future/

💻 I took several completely independent datasets and "pitted" them against each other. One of the results is shown in this chart: the more "concrete" (roads, buildings, parking lots) my machine learning model identified in a community, the higher the surface temperature recorded by the thermal sensor.

🔥 The result: Data from different sources confirm one another. The difference in surface temperature between "green" and "concrete" residential areas averages 8–10°C throughout the summer. On certain days, this gap is likely even wider.

📉 This chart shows only established residential communities. If industrial zones were included, the trend would be even more dramatic. While modeling errors certainly exist, the overall physical pattern is undeniable.

#Calgary #OpenData #UrbanHeat #LULC #DataScience #ClimateAction #YYC #GreennesOfCalgary #ClimateEquity #EnvironmentalEquity #CityPlanning #MachineLearning #RemoteSensing #RStats #Sentinel1 #Sentinel2 #Landsat #fossgis

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Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday ! Wow!

#DIY #CityPlanning #Crafts #Electronics #Gardening #Linux #Outdoors #RetroComputing #PeerTube

Heartland Urbanist makes nice videos covering public transport and city planning in the American midwest. You can follow at:

➡️ @heartlandurbanist

There are already 26 videos published. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://urbanists.video/a/heartlandurbanist/videos

You can also follow the videos' creator at @mattcaff

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