We have been visiting Hengelo's new market square for the past years and it is wonderful to see the transformation that has taken place. The market square has reused materials where possible in the surrounding streets and now has a park with green walls, flowers, a wadi, and a pond. We also saw examples of streets that have not yet undergone this transformation, but that thanks to the success of the market square, the shopkeepers now also would like to help to make this happen. These type of streets show the complete lack of vegetation that was previously characteristic for much of the inner city.
For future studies, we will have students perform thermal walks to assess the performance of these new measures in terms of reducing urban heat stress in comparison to the areas without measures.
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