Cooler Desert Cities - 2508: Progress Report on Manuscript Write-up and Cooler Desert Cities Platform Development

Enclosed documents (appendices): Appendix A-Additional Geometry metrics; Phase 12: (Sep-Oct 2025)

RC Task: Cooler Desert Cities Platform development and Manuscript writing contribution.

Deliverables: Progress Report on Manuscript write up and Platform development

Phase: Comparative analysis of all case studies, initial correlation analysis, CityJson data repository test and optimisation typology development This report summarizes progress to date, key objectives, activities and further tasks for the Cooler Desert Cities project, which aims to unearth design drivers that contribute to low-emission, low-energy desert comfort, laying the basis for the development of the “Cooler-Shaper Tool” (CST). This stage included a comparative analysis of all the case studies, initial correlation analysis to identify key optimisation metrics, test of CityJson data format for creating a data repository of all cases and development of a single typology model to be used for optimis