SET Proceedings 2978-4387 Caravel Press 10.65582/set.2003.003 2003.003 Urban thermal diversity SteemersKoen kas11@cam.ac.uk RamosMarylis SinouMaria The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 6 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EB, UK 24102003 2 1 978-1-995850-10-8 11 18 © 2003 Copyright WSSET 2003

This paper introduces the interrelationships between urban form, microclimate and thermal comfort. It draws on recent research of monitoring, surveying and modelling urban thermal characteristics and proposes a method of mapping urban diversity. Because the urban context provides a rich and varied environment that influences the way we use urban spaces (movement, sequence, activity) and how we feel in them (stimulation, thermal comfort), the aim here is to highlight the notion of diversity. Thus thermal diversity is used as a measure of the urban environment, rather than more conventional spatially or temporally fixed average values.

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