Uploaded on 2015-10-23 by descamillaospina

It reviewing the link, I found that one of the cities which presents a high degree of Urban Heat Island is in Kansas City, with up to 28 ° hotter compared to their rural area, while for example Las Vegas has a Urban Heat Island 24 °, with a difference of 4 ° evident between two opposing and where surprisingly cities, construction and lifestyle with lots of movement and activity corresponds to the city of Las Vegas. 2. Which are the main UHI effects that you can identify in your area? Bogota (Temperature: 20°C) is located in the center of the country seeing it from a cartographic point where rural areas corresponds to what might be called bedroom communities, which correspond to those small spaces that contain mostly inhabit homes that people who move to the city to work. For this reason the measure of UHI can be understood as the comparison between traffic and activity that handles Bogota along with its rural perimeter, which would give a pretty significant difference, by the following: ![PANORAMICA DE BOGOTA. Tomada de: http://www.thousandwonders.net/Bogota][1] ![PANORAMICA DE BOGOTA. Tomada de: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_%28Bogot%C3%A1%29#/media/File:Centro_internacional.JPG][2] It may be a city with high, very densified, construction growth in height and design of roads, with a horizon where the edge of town, which only reaches living the city in all its surface, which corresponds to built spaces is lost with some open spaces within grounds, along a set of heights between buildings which generates a permeability, offering the possibility of shade, ventilation and heat differences. ![PANORAMICA DE SOACHA. Tomada de: http://www.siliconweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SOACHA-CAZUCABLE-13.jpg][3] Soacha (Temperature: 14°C) is located in the south western edge of Bogota and has informal settlements located in rural areas than in stark contrast to the densification of city, denoting the use of strong housing. ![PANORAMICA DE CHIA. Tomada de: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3435/complejocomercialcentrocha01s0.jpg][4] Chia (Temperature: 15°C)is located north of the city and befits a city which houses most homes and residential sets of families who work or study in the city and rural areas where dominates the built constrastando with low densification and informal settlements. ![PANORAMICA DE COTA. Tomada de: http://www.lafm.com.co/sites/default/files/imagecache/600xy/imagenes/cota-cundinamarca_1386156843.jpg][5] Cota (Temperature: 14°C)is another rural village in the north west of the city and which maintains the same features as Chia and Soacha, with the difference that there inhabit much of wealthy families. These comparisons with the rural town, you can see the difference of up to 6 ° C, in an area where cold weather and winds for rural areas is quick and therefore the heat island magnitudes are not so high in relation to that, the temperature is low, there is little densification and therefore low anthropogenic activity is presented, compared with Bogota, concentrating diversity of activities and uses, where densification is generating streets in May cannon that require more ventilation and the presence of two types of heat island canopy and canopy surface where weather changes occur with textures and types of materials, the use of aerosols and increased buoyancy index presents . 3. Which are the measures you would propose? Propose the implementation of green road divisions, a good adaptation and circuits for the use of bicycles providing greater security, conjugaria the use of bollards along with the implementation of green elements and vegetation, liabilities and would encourage participatory design in the construction and design of city along with the recovery of parks that mitigate the impact of concrete in the majority, along with other materials in the city. 4. Is UHI effect concerning policy making in your area? Until Bogota has implemented the use of green roofs in the bus stops, the use of bicycles and a day without car prioritizing pedestrian, generating participatory design policies and regulations include as public space and landscape. [1]: http://www.thousandwonders.net/Bogota [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_%28Bogot%C3%A1%29#/media/File:Centro_internacional.JPG [3]: http://www.siliconweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SOACHA-CAZUCABLE-13.jpg [4]: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/3435/complejocomercialcentrocha01s0.jpg [5]: http://www.lafm.com.co/sites/default/files/imagecache/600xy/imagenes/cota-cundinamarca_1386156843.jpg