Project Summary
In recent years, the City of Los Angeles has been leading the efforts to
combat Urban Heat. In particular, the City outlined a goal of reducing
the urban-rural temperature differential by 3°F by 2035 (Sustainable
City pLAn, 2015). To achieve this goal, the Bureau of Street Services
(StreetsLA), initiated the installation of solar reflective ‘Cool
Pavements’ across fifteen City Council Districts. The report draws upon
three empirical research methods to examine the thermal comfort of the
novel Cool Pavements Project in the Sun Valley neighborhood in Los
Angeles. For this study, Sun Valley site was selected because the area
received three different treatments of the Cool Pavements, and has a
patch of regular asphalt pavement within the same neighborhood block.