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This is great for focusing on providing adequate public transportation.

I would also love to see attempts at providing heat stress mitigation FOR trees.



heat stress mitigation for trees, could actualy be exploited for our, and there benifit. treat a tree as a bunch of fancy pumps, which it is, and choose trees that have best shape and canopy for cover, that are also water hogs, as they do pump a lot of water from the ground to stay cool, so give them extra via burried waterers that drip feed them water to there roots, and they will cool the surrounding area a bit more, set enough of them up, and paint all availible roofs with the new super reflective paints, and it might be possible to create niehborhood islands of cool


Design #12 looks nice. The same performance as trees.

It has annoyed me alot that buss shelters seem to be built like sun ovens only protecting versus rain and wind.


The protection from wind is the problem when it's hot - no air movement and thus less cooling inside the shelter than outside it.

On the other hand, most trees won't protect you from rain.

Maybe it's best to have a shelter under trees.




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