Urban Heat Snapshot

As climate change increases temperatures in global cities, Arup launched its global Urban Heat Snapshot campaign to raise awareness of how urban design choices can improve (or worsen) city heat.

Our campaign leveraged digital tools and AI from within Arup to map the most extreme “hot spots” within cities around the world. We also were able to highlight how nature-based solutions could help mitigate their impact. 

Our data-led approach brought academic modelling into the real world, ensuring that the outtakes for property and built environment professionals were clear – they can, and must, adapt their status quo to help reduce urban heat islands.