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Extreme Heat: How Urban Design Needs to Adapt to Rising Temperatures
2016-04-25 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CurBed: Rising temperatures from climate change pose numerous challenges to cities, including coastal flooding, rising sea levels, and droughts. But a new report by the Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) of the American Institute of Architects New York addresses an often overlooked, but seemingly obvious issue head-on: the danger of higher and higher temperatures. Extreme Heat suggests that cities, and the way we build and design them, needs to adapt and evolve to deal with the coming...
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