‘Tailored heat action plan required for Hyderabad’
He said that for these plans to be more effective, they must respond to the specific ways in which a city works in a more finely-grained manner, encoding an understanding of the city at the neighbourhood or ward level.
Swastik Harish, an urban development expert, said the plan can be based on a city’s infrastructure by leveraging mutual shading between buildings, enhancing shaded spaces, passive cooling techniques, using cool material wherever possible and also actively encouraging the community to use white cooling paints, slopes on roofs, and broken light-coloured tiles on roof to reflect the heat from the sun.
“As part of this study we looked at about 1,700 informal settlements in Hyderabad and visited 31 of them to understand their heat signature. We arrived at five types of neighbourhoods/streets and four-five types of housing with different heat signatures. An effective HAP for Hyderabad can be for these specific types, codified as building codes etc.,” Swastik said.
Emphasising that periodic events that are very disruptive must not be forgotten, Khandekar said, “Cities and municipalities must assume greater decision-making power and get access to necessary resources to support proactive climate adaptation planning.”
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