silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years agoHow to Cool Down a City | Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up133arrow-down10cross-posted to: treehuggers@slrpnk.net
arrow-up133arrow-down1external-linkHow to Cool Down a City | Singapore is rethinking its sweltering urban areas to dampen the effects of climate change. Can it be a model?www.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square9fedilinkcross-posted to: treehuggers@slrpnk.net
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 years ago Can it be a model? We do that for years already in europe.
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoPlanting trees and so on, (re)planning cities with hot summers in mind.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 years agoThe 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.
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoThis is a bit more in depth than is standard in Europe
minus-squareedric@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 years agoSingapore 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.
We do that for years already in europe.
What do you mean by that?
Planting trees and so on, (re)planning cities with hot summers in mind.
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.
Now this is sad.
Now this is capitalism.
This is a bit more in depth than is standard in Europe
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.