%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Logaraj Ramakreshnan
%A Nasrin Aghamohammadi
%A Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini
%T A New Approach to Urban Heat Island Assessment in the Context of Greater Kuala Lumpur
%B The First NZAAR International Event Series on Natural and Built Environment, Cities, Sustainability and Advanced Engineering
%C Putrajaya, Malaysia
%D 2016
%8 26 June 2016
%P 181-183
%I New Zealand Academy of Applied Research
%@ 2463-5979
%K UHI
%K Greater KL
%K LCZ
%K Urban microclimate
%K Sustainable city
%U https://gdiacademy.org/nzaar/UDCP-16-86.html
%X Urban heat island (UHI) has become a growing concern for Kuala Lumpur (KL) as many studies reported a significant increase of air temperature in highly densed urban areas compared to its surroundings. A critical review of the recent UHI studies revealed the insufficiency of field measurements to apprehend the severity of UHI magnitude in the consecutive years. Few studies comprehensively reported the influence of urban fabrics on the development of UHI in KL. Many fundamental studies just reported the alteration to natural surfaces as the main factor while the introduction of green spaces in urban areas as a good initiative to reduce the UHI effects. This creates a gap for the future studies to investigate the overall scenario of UHI by exploring more factors and mitigation strategies. The use of Local Climate Zone (LCZ) scheme in future studies will allow the researchers to include the effects of urbanization in quantifying UHI magnitude as many studies in the past failed to account the contribution of urban fabric towards the development and mitigation of UHI. This study also highlights the expert stakeholders sharing sessions on UHI phenomenon in University of Malaya as an initial initiative to devise more advanced UHI studies in the upcoming years as a move towards sustainable KL city as stipulated in Tenth Malaysia Plan (RMK 10).