Uploaded on 2016-03-02 by julioam12

Sao josé is a middle range city that has been growing fast in the past years due the industrial past, now with this industrial model is showing a slow decrease, but the services industry is fast growing in the city. With more than 70% of the área being legally preserved, it´s urbam center concentrate the UHI effects on the olders industrial zones, as well the new service zones ![city overview][1] City Overview ![residential neighborhood][2] Residential Neighborhood ![industrial neighborhood][3] Industrial Neighborhood Zoning plays a important task at mantaining green spaces, but not at the city geometry level, there´s no control, laws or norms that makes the private sector, when developing a new neighborhood, take any considerations on urban geometry. Also in the thermal analysis of the UHI, the Heat Island effect is not very pronounced, so, that being said, regulations on urban geometry are required [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14569534017792107.png [2]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14569534237002203.png [3]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14569534483924996.png