The role of green space in the urbanization of Hanoi city

Abstract

Rapid urbanization causes significant changes on the earth surface directly and internal itself temperature. The transformation of land use purposes crucially affects the surface temperature and exacerbates the effect of the negative heat island. It is necessary to develope a long-term strategy optimize urban cooling. In this study, the determinated object is Hanoi - city - a widen urbanized city in Vietnam. The authors proposed, defined and calculated the concept of cooling efficiency and threshold values. The results show that the surface heat capacity increases in proportion to the reduction of green space. Plots with excess temperature difference of the ground surface of 4.34 ℃ with reduced green space.