This document presents a comprehensive methodology for promoting strategic planning for urban shading and for providing planning bodies and planners with standards for quantitative and qualitative assessment of existing and projected levels of shading according to different planning scenarios.
The document presents a concise overview that identifies the weak points in contemporary methods for quantifying shading in urban areas in Israel (and around the world), followed by a description of a new method for setting targets for shade planning on urban streets. This method, presented here as part of an overall process for formulating a municipal shading strategy, is based on a new quantitative index developed by the authors – the Shade Availability Index.
