Redesigning cities for a future of extreme heat
Zero: The Climate Race
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The Urban Heat Island
In cities during heat waves you can have the temperature of a city being 10 or 15 degrees Celsius higher than surrounding rural areas. That is how extreme things have become and the most recent occurrence of that kind of heat is we learned that this summer in Europe, heat waves killed 15,000 people. So cities are hotspots because our cities are build wrong. We really stopped thinking about using the wisdom that architecture and urban planning had used for years and years before.
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