Abstract
Designing and planning cities in consideration of urban climate is increasingly important in some Japanese cities because urban thermal environments in summer are becoming severe. However, stakeholders such as local government officials, planners, and residents cannot consider the urban climate in their design and planning processes because urban climate systems are difficult to understand. Therefore, authors proposed the Urban Environmental Climate Map (UECM) for supporting urban design and planning. Nevertheless, UECMs are rarely made and used by Japanese local governments now, apparently because UECMs do not conform to actual Japanese planning systems. Therefore, the authors are trying to make UECM based on interviewing local government officials in City of Sakai. In this paper authors report and discuss about the results.
