Not throwing shade: Why is shade so hard to find?

In this episode we're talking shade in cities. The good kind! Why don't we have enough of it?

Links:

Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

• Shade (Places Journal)
• Impact of shade on outdoor thermal comfort—a seasonal field study in Tempe, Arizona
• 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees by Dan Burden
• Urban Trees and Human Health: A Scoping Review
• Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behavior; Study explores relationship between urban trees and crime
• Quantifying the shade provision of street trees in urban landscape: A case study in Boston, USA, using Google Street View
• Homeowner Interactions with Residential Trees in Urban Areas
• The benefits of trees for livable and sustainable communities
• How glass buildings are making fighting climate change harder
• Shade in the City
• The High Cost of Urban MonoculturesParks and Recreation Learn About Phoenix's Urban Forest
• Tree & Shade Plan Development Resources
• Killer Heat in the United States: The Future of Dangerously Hot Days (Map)
• On Fences, Plazas, and Latino Urbanism: A Conversation with James Rojas
• Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics
• Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On (featuring Dr. V. Kelly Turner)
• Tree Thinking

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Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark.

Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, the West Wing theme, Edward Shallow, and Stephen Douglass ("Gonna Be Another Hot Day")