This special issue focuses on the under-studied but increasingly pressing issue of urban heat. Cities are getting hotter, both due to the global crisis of climate change, and the related phenomena of Urban Heat Islands, which locally amplify increased global temperatures and exposure to solar radiation. We know a great deal about how heat is affecting cities from a scientific and public health perspective. Urban studies scholarship, however, has been slower to foreground heat as a social, spatial, and political category of analysis, at least in comparison to discussions of carbon emissions and their control, energy and infrastructure, rising sea levels or flooding, and activism towards sustainability. While many of these themes also figure in this collection, our focus is on the varied phenomena of urban dwellers feeling, avoiding, suffering under, mitigating, culturally interpreting and attempting to anticipate and plan for, the reality of elevated air temperatures and solar radiation. What we call thermal control, governance, and health is the multi-level and multivalent social and material response to uncomfortable and potentially injurious temperatures, an elusive topic this special issue makes visible and constitutes what we hope will be an ongoing urban research agenda.

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热与城市：亚洲城市的热控制、治理和健康


本期特刊重点关注研究不足但日益紧迫的城市热量问题。由于气候变化的全球危机，以及城市热岛的相关现象，城市热岛现象正在变得越来越热，这些现象在局部放大了全球气温升高和暴露在太阳辐射下的情况。从科学和公共卫生的角度来看，我们对高温如何影响城市非常了解。然而，城市研究学术研究作为一种社会、空间和政治分析类别，至少与对碳排放及其控制、能源和基础设施、海平面上升或洪水以及可持续性激进主义的讨论相比，进展缓慢。虽然其中许多主题也出现在本系列中，但我们的关注点是城市居民感受、避免、遭受痛苦、减轻、文化解释以及试图预测和规划气温升高和太阳辐射的现实的各种现象。我们所说的热控制、治理和健康是对不舒服和可能有害的温度的多层次和多价的社会和物质反应，这是一个难以捉摸的话题，本期特刊使之可见，并构成了我们希望成为正在进行的城市研究议程。