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Skin of the city Okuka, Marjan Fuertes Pérez, Pere Albareda Fernández, Elena Serra Permanyer, Marta Sotoca García, Adolfo Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Urbanisme::Impacte ambiental Public spaces Climate change mitigation Equality Espais públics Canvis climàtics -- Mitigació Desigualtat social Since ancient times, town planning has been conceived through the lens of health. To fit the health standard criteria, the city needed to adapt to the environmental conditions and provide living conditions for the population. One of the basic living conditions was the maintenance of temperature inside a comfortable range. That condition had to be achieved by traditional builders with solutions that were both low-cost and effective. However, to find these solutions, the traditional communities had to perceive the city in a different way than we do. Therefore, their perspective of the environment is studied and adapted to the contemporary city. Today, temperature is still a crucial condition for our health and survival, and its maintenance inside a comfortable range often requires a substantial investment of resources. Thus, our survival often depends upon the amount of resources we have, and this is only one of the factors that affect our vulnerability to heat stress. The vulnerability factors vary among the population and are not homogeneously distributed. However, the spaces we all share should not pose a risk to anyone using them. Since heat mitigation strategies are often expensive and the vulnerability factors are not equally distributed, it is hard to implement a solution desirable for everyone. To see how desires affect the choices, this study tests the different solutions for improving thermal comfort in public spaces and evaluates their performance with different value systems. 2024-10-17 Master thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2117/416603 PRISMA-189420 eng Open Access application/pdf Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya