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Likely Jan Lukas
@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca

@HyL@mstdn.ca

I have no doubt that #Edmonton could significantly reduce the urban #HeatIsland effect by remediating all communities presently without treed #boulevards between the concrete #sidewalks and the #asphalt streets to having such features.

I don't know if new neighbourhoods are still developed this way, but it is clear from observing where frontyard fencelines are set that there IS sufficient setback along many (all?) such neighbourhoods ro accomplish this without disturbing private property in the least.

Even prior to experiencing a #HeatDome and sustained #HeatWaves my neighbourhood was a nightmare of no-#shade heat when throughout the summers for any #pedestrian.

Sure, some homeowners plant trees but vanishingly few have a broad enough canopy to shade even the sidewalk. None cover the black asphalt.

😡😡

#yeg
#heat
#ExtremeHeat
#mitigation
#ClimateChange
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#abwx
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Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:
@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca

@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca Re new neighbourhoods in Edmonton & the urban canopy: it's not great.

A friend bought a house in a greenfield development in the far southwest of the city. Every house is required to plant a tree in the front yard, but most of the ones chosen are small decorative trees, like flowering crabapples. A full sized tree would completely overpower the small yards. And there's no verge / boulevard with city trees between the sidewalk & street.

The lampposts were a decorative design that arched over the streets, as if a designer was trying to recall the shape of the elm trees that arch across the street in my mid-20th-century central neighbourhood — but not at all the same in effect.

@HyL@mstdn.ca

Likely Jan Lukas
@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca

@HyL@mstdn.ca

Also: thanks for sharing the article. ❤❤️

I have known about qanats and how they work for many years but some of the other #heat #mitigations discussed were new to me.

I wa surprised they didn't include covered pedestrian arcades but perhaps that is commonplace there already regardless? 🤔🤔 (I don't know … just musing.)