The urban cooling gap: why planting design matters as much as canopy count

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Street trees reduce urban heat. That much is established. What’s less settled is whether they’re enough on their own, or whether the way a city plants matters as much as how much it plants. New field research from Melbourne, Munich, and Hong Kong, led by Mohammad A. Rahman at […] The post The urban cooling gap: why planting design matters as much as canopy count first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.