How are U.S. Cities Planning for Heat?

The aim of this project is to determine the prevalence and nature of urban heat management goals and interventions in municipal planning documents. To do this, a research team comprised of students and faculty at UCLA and Arizona State University developed a database of 175 adopted plans from the 50 most populous cities in the United States. Each document was then scanned for references to 50 original heat content variables and 25 secondary social and environmental variables pertaining to heat. Heat-specific clauses were coded for heat framings, hard and soft interventions, references to equity, and data sources. The occurrence and frequency of the heat content variables in each plan are available at the clause and plan scale and all variables are available at the city scale.