How a "cool block" in one Massachusetts city could provide a template for combatting extreme heat

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How a "cool block" in one Massachusetts city could provide a template for combatting extreme heat

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Solarpunk Urbanism@slrpnk.netEnglish · 8 months ago

The Cool Block: Ben Tracy explores how we can turn down urban heat

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Extreme heat now kills more people in the U.S. than any other weather hazard—and cities are at the greatest risk. In Chelsea, Massachusetts, residents are tu...

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Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

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