Cities have long made plans for extreme heat. Are they enough in a warming world?

No. Not even close.

Meanwhile here in Japan cities are still fully dedicated to cutting down their trees, removing all shade and paving over every square inch that they can.

Very frustrating.

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Meanwhile here in Japan cities are still fully dedicated to cutting down their trees, removing all shade and paving over every square inch that they can.

> Very frustrating.

Not all. I live in a city with the seaside and the countryside.

Not all. I live in a city with the seaside and the countryside.

Yes, I'm sure such exist, but they are the exception rather than the rule. In the ones where most of the population lives and where the worst heat islands are - Osaka, Toyko, Nagoya, etc - its more or less business as usual - cut trees, remove shade and pave pave pave.

I live in a small city (bedroom community for a larger one). We have a declining, aging population with declining car ownership and brutal heat in the summers, yet they are as I write this cutting down and removing one of the last strands of trees (and demolishing the hill they were on) in my neighborhood in order to build a new roadway that was planned decades ago and really serves no purpose at all. The new roadway has zero roadside trees, and puts a massive swath of asphalt across an area that was entirely forest or housing when I moved in a few years ago.

If you live somewhere where this isn't happening, good for you, enjoy it while you can.

We don't have skyscrapers or concrete everywhere.

We don't have skyscrapers or concrete everywhere.

That sounds very nice.

But if you are living in an environment that doesn't have any concrete in it, you are living in a vastly different environment from that in which about 90% of the population in this country lives.

Green or living grooves are a big part of the answer. We've made three so far on sheds.

They look wonderful, reduce water runoff, support biodiversity and significantly reduce heat both inside the buildings and outside.

"Grooves"

ROOVES!

Grooves=rooves=roofs

green roofs are very good for a number of reasons.

LOL yeah here in Japan the plan to cool down cities is to cut down all the trees, asphalt every corner, and put up massive concrete monstrosities.

The trend in Japan is to force populations to live in cities and it is evident by lack of funding for countryside areas