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To assess how city size, fractality, and anisometry interact to influence surface urban heat island intensity.

June 30, 2017Scientific ReportsOpen Access

The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island

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BZBin ZhouEast China University of Science and Technology DRDiego RybskiComplexity Science Hub Vienna JKJürgen P. KroppUniversity of Potsdam

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals urban heat island intensity scales with city size and compactness across European cities, highlighting structural trade-offs in climate-adaptive urban planning.

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To assess how city size, fractality, and anisometry interact to influence surface urban heat island intensity.
Evaluated the surface urban heat island phenomenon across the largest 5,000 cities in Europe.
Applied multi-linear regression models incorporating interaction terms among city size, fractal dimension, and anisometry.
Urban heat island intensity increased with the logarithm of city size and fractal dimension, but decreased with the logarithm of anisometry.
City size demonstrated the strongest influence on heat intensity, followed by compactness, while the degree of city stretching had the smallest effect.

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Zhou et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d910fe8988aeabbe684045 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04242-2

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Cross-sectional analysis reveals urban heat island intensity scales with city size and compactness across European cities, highlighting structural trade-offs in climate-adaptive urban planning.

The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island

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The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island

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