Tl;dw: Replacing pavement with green space (vegetation), trees for shade, and painting pavement and rooftops with lighter colors to reflect heat.
All, in my opinion, relatively simple to implement compared to the potential increase in livability. A sea of pavement is depressing enough even before the heat illness and deaths
Honestly the roof thing should be law, Solar pannels, Meadow, or White paint (the get out for roofs that can’t structurally manage the other two) it should be mandatory to have at least one of these on any un-used roof space.
I always realize how bad this is when I go to the hardware store. Other than any other place I go to, it got a HUGE parking lot in front that’s just an asphalt wasteland with no tree in sight. The increased heat is immediately noticeable.
Climate change solved!
No, hot cities less hot. But that’s also worth something.
That’s pretty cool 😎
Ok, but lets get a better name.
“Cool Block” sounds like a ban on cool people. Like if you show up, and you’re a really cool person, they’d stop you and say “WHOA! HOLD IT!!! WE HAVE A COOL BLOCK IN PLACE! LAME PEOPLE ONLY! You’ll have to leave! And take your 5 girlfriends with you! Your lifestyle of having multiple types of sex, with multiple people at once, is far too cool for us here!”
Consider the overlap between people that are cool and people that are physically attractive. The city is too hot? Keep the hot ones out to bring the average down. Ez.
