How to Cool Down a City | Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?
How to Cool Down a City | Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?
Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?
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Can it be a model?
We do that for years already in europe.
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What do you mean by that?
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Planting trees and so on, (re)planning cities with hot summers in mind.
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The thing that's going on in North America is that parts of cities where wealthy people live are done that way, but not areas for the poor. It creates a significant temperature difference between wealthy areas and poor ones.
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Now this is sad.
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Now this is capitalism.
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This is a bit more in depth than is standard in Europe
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Singapore is a small city state and very urban-dense even compared to European cities. It's definitely a different model they are trying to implement.
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