Livable Cities

The book highlights the need to increase urban green cover in cities to create healthier cities and mitigate climate change and the extreme weather we all face. It provides a roadmap and guidance on climate action and biodiversity loss in legislation and policy, highlighting many of the issues and challenges we all, and our cities in general, have faced, particularly in the COVID period.
It highlights the need to link concepts such as liveability and urban heat islands to the Sustainable Development Goals and examines the social and economic impact of the urban heat island effect on cities and citizens. The book also discusses strategies to mitigate high temperatures in cities through urban green cover and green infrastructure and highlights the importance of targeting vulnerable groups when taking action.
The book provides, through two chapters, a comprehensive assessment of urban green cover in Cairo and Rome, an analysis of the current situation, criteria to identify the areas at highest risk, and the presentation of a simulation and environmental framework that contributes to effective climate change mitigation, which I argue can be applied in many other contexts. It also highlights global city plans and guides the creation of sustainable and resilient cities in the aftermath of COVID that can withstand future challenges, which our world is witnessing in an unprecedented way.