Extreme Heat: Cooling the Public Realm and Climate - Resilient Urban Design - 4.8.15 from rising bd Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 72 min 45 sec
✓ Published: 18-Apr-2015

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Extreme heat has joined the list of critical vulnerabilities with which NYC must grapple. We didn’t need the NYC Panel on Climate Change’s 2015 report to the Mayor to note the worsening warming trend. In fact, 2014 was the hottest year on earth since record-keeping began, and the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1997. Meteorologists forecast that NYC will gain 7 degrees on average this century, which will alter urban livability and ecosystem health.nnWith increased global urbanizatio