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  "textContent": "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 […]\n\nThe post The urban cooling gap: why planting design matters as much as canopy count first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
  "title": "The urban cooling gap: why planting design matters as much as canopy count"
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