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Urban Zone, Disaster Management, Urban Analysis, Urban Heat Island, Southern Cities, Sustainable City, Cool Roof, Environmental Education, Carbon Neutral

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Slicing five miles through this southern city’s downtown, Broadway shows just how challenging it can be for a sweltering urban center to beat the dangerous summer heat. Louisville’s main drag leaves the upscale and relatively leafy Highlands neighborhood and heads west, where it widens to seven lanes of black asphalt and enters […]

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Four Approaches to Reducing the Urban Heat Island Effect - Urban Land Magazine Heat Island Effect Diagram, Climate Site Analysis, Architecture Climate Analysis, Hot And Dry Climate Architecture, Climate Analysis Architecture Diagram, Urban Heat Island Diagram, Urban Heat Island, Urban Tree, Passive Design

Extreme heat is the number-one weather-related cause of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and extreme heat can also harm infrastructure as well as the overall economy. What if it were possible to make cities cooler—that is, actually lower urban temperatures to improve the quality of life—with more-resilient development?

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