The Formation of a Comfortable Outdoor Thermal Environment in a Southeast Asian Sustainable City

This study discusses the present and future urban thermal environment in Metro Manila which is a city in the Tropical zones. The purpose is to establish an evaluation method of urban thermal environment from viewpoints of land use and land cover by case study for Metro Manila. We focused on an urban block as a unit for evaluating urban thermal environment and its explanatory variables for classifying urban blocks were decided. In the results, the whole urban blocks of Metro Manila were classified as several groups. The results were also verified using HIP (Heat Island potential) proposed by the authors.