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Politecnico di Milano: Horizon 2020 project to provide public authorities with tools to design commuter oriented urban policies
Nicola Colaninno (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano) was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2020 for the MultiCAST project: Multiscale Thermal-Related Urban Climate Analysis and Simulation Tool. The project will be funded with more than €250,000 under the European Union s Horizon 2020 programme.
The effects of global warming are particularly pronounced in urban areas where the structural and thermal properties of materials critically influence the climate, making cities generally warmer than their surrounding areas. To counter this phenomenon, known as the urban heat island, city institutions are increasingly promoting pedestrian mobility; however, the effectiveness of these policies is ad