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Greener Urbanization: Heat Island & Air Quality (2D)

Interactive 2D city grid: adjust park coverage, green-roof adoption and tree canopy density and watch urban heat island intensity and air quality respond as the day cycles from dawn to night.

Ecology & Conservation Biology2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion reads the same city-block heat and air-quality model as the 3D version from directly overhead: each grid cell is a building, a park, or a green-roofed building on a fixed street grid, and its temperature each frame is the day's ambient swing plus a heat term from surface imperviousness minus a distance-weighted cooling term from nearby greenery. Raise park coverage, green-roof adoption or canopy density and the grid visibly cools while the drifting smog dots thin out, tracking a live air-quality index.

⚙ Under the hood

A top-down city grid where park coverage, green-roof adoption and tree canopy density feed a distance-weighted heat/cooling model, driving a live heat-island delta and air-quality readout through a full day-night cycle.

urban heat islandgreen infrastructureair qualitybiophilic designgreen roofsurban ecology

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install