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Understanding the Urban Heat Impact of Proposed Changes to Urban Form in Cincinnati, Ohio Between 1907 and 1948

Morgan, Sarah
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1637066274754253

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2021, MCP, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Community Planning.
As cities across the United States work to address increasing numbers of extreme heat events and higher temperatures, researchers and planners must address the context and formation of thermal inequity within cities. Through researching historic urban development policies, documents, and maps, this research explores a possible method for evaluating how the proposed changes to urban form made in Cincinnati’s historic city-wide plans had the potential to disproportionately affect urban heat across the city, and therefore result in varying levels of heat vulnerability if implemented. This research presents an evaluation method that can be used to understand how the proposed changes to urban form made in city-wide comprehensive plans can disproportionately influence community heat vulnerability if implemented using a Historic Heat Vulnerability Index (HHVI). The alternative evaluation method uses spatial analysis to measure whether four factors of urban form were disproportionately proposed across four Cincinnati areas by the three citywide plans proposed between 1900 and 1948. This research is an initial attempt that both proposes an analytical method of evaluation and a comprehensive case study, allowing planners to understand the potential that long-term impacts that policies can have on neighborhood residents and contribute to inequitable public health and environmental factors in subsequent generations. Despite the limitations to the study design, the methodology described in this research succeeded in providing context and a deeper understanding of how comprehensive plans envisioned by city officials and early urban designers had the potential to disproportionately influence residential heat vulnerability. This research found that the three comprehensive plans proposed UHI-enabling developments in areas that currently have high heat vulnerability.
Carla Chifos (Committee Member)
Leah Hollstein, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
73 p.
Urban Planning

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  • Morgan, S. (2021). Understanding the Urban Heat Impact of Proposed Changes to Urban Form in Cincinnati, Ohio Between 1907 and 1948 [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1637066274754253

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Morgan, Sarah. Understanding the Urban Heat Impact of Proposed Changes to Urban Form in Cincinnati, Ohio Between 1907 and 1948. 2021. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1637066274754253.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Morgan, Sarah. "Understanding the Urban Heat Impact of Proposed Changes to Urban Form in Cincinnati, Ohio Between 1907 and 1948." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1637066274754253

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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