Interactive StoryMap: Explore How City Tech and Partners are Addressing Urban Heat Islands
Urban heat islands – where buildings, concrete, and other development are significantly warmer than surrounding areas – pose immediate and longer-term threats to our city infrastructure and have consequential impacts on human health.
Cities can use green spaces, emergency heat response systems, and other measures to reduce the negative impacts of urban heat, but limited data are available for urban planners and municipal officials to plan and assess these interventions.
To address this need,
City Tech Collaborative
has partnered with Microsoft
, Esri
,
d3i
Systems
, and the City of Chicago
to create a new tool to incorporate NASA environmental data into urban design and infrastructure planning.By making weather and climate information based on NASA environmental data accessible through Esri’sArcGIS mapping and analytics platform and hosted in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud, urban planners and government officials will be able to better evaluate the need for and impact of urban green spaces and other approaches to manage urban hotspots.
Explore the StoryMap on Esri's website
to understand how the Urban Heat Response partnership is combining unique technical capabilities to build a new tool to inform local and regional urban heat planning efforts, with the goal of helping cities improve their ability to deal with shocks and long-term stressors associated with extreme heat events.
Click here
to explore the StoryMap.
Click here
to read more about the Urban Heat Response solution on City Tech's website.
About City Tech Collaborative (City Tech):
City Tech is an urban solution accelerator that tackles problems too big for any single sector or organization to solve alone. Our work uses IoT sensing networks, advanced analytics, and urban design to create scalable, market-ready solutions. Current initiatives address mobility, healthy cities, connected construction, and emerging innovation opportunities. City Tech was born and raised in Chicago, and every city is a potential partner. Keep up with the latest news by following us on Twitterand LinkedIn.
