Planning for sustainable cities generally focuses on compact, human-scale cities. The urban paradigms underlying each city produce morphologies which generate a distinctive local urban climate. In this paper, four sub-cities in Delhi NCR, India, are classified using local climate zone (LCZ), and then analysed for thermal performance and compactness. These sub-cities are broadly classified as a garden city (LCZ 5_A), a resettlement colony (LCZ 3), a mixed land-use city (LCZ 5), and an industrial city (LCZ 5₆). The surface UHI (UHI_Surf) is estimated using Google Earth Engine with MODIS, canopy layer UHI (UHI_UCL) with meteorological data, and density using Spacematrix. The nighttime UHI_UCL is 7.52 °C (LCZ 5 and LCZ 5_A) and the UHI_Surf is 5.2 °C (LCZ 5 and LCZ D). A major apprehension is the residual temperature at sunrise (5–8 °C) leading to high heat stress and detrimental health impacts. The heating and cooling rate, reduced by a factor of three is observed (LCZ 5–0.25 °C/h). The least UHI is experienced by LCZ 5_A and the built density is highest in LCZ 3. The mixed-land use (LCZ 5) city performs poorly, whereas the industrial city (LCZ 5₆) performs optimally on both thermal and density scales.

可持续城市的规划通常侧重于紧凑的人性化城市。每个城市下面的城市范式产生的形态会产生独特的当地城市气候。在本文中，使用当地气候带（LCZ）对印度德里NCR的四个子城市进行了分类，然后对其热性能和紧凑性进行了分析。这些子城市大致分为花园城市（LCZ 5 _A），安置区（LCZ 3），混合土地利用城市（LCZ 5）和工业城市（LCZ 5 ₆）。使用带有MODIS的Google Earth引擎，带有气象数据的冠层UHI（UHI _UCL）和使用Spacematrix的密度来估计表面UHI（UHI _Surf）。夜间UHI _UCL温度为7.52°C（LCZ 5和LCZ 5 _A），UHI _Surf为5.2°C（LCZ 5和LCZ D）。一个主要的忧虑是日出时的残留温度（5–8°C）会导致较高的热应力和对健康的不利影响。观察到加热和冷却速率降低了三倍（LCZ 5–0.25°C / h）。LCZ 5 _A经历的UHI最少，LCZ 3中的建筑密度最高。混合土地利用（LCZ 5）城市的表现不佳，而工业城市（LCZ 5 ₆）在热度和密度方面均表现最佳。