Presenting City Climate Corner: Hopkins Urban Heat Island
Though Hopkins is one of the smaller Minneapolis suburbs, they have two really innovative programs to reduce the urban heat island effect.
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National Links: Autonomous Buses and Sim City Planners
Every day at The Overhead Wire we collect news about cities and send the links to our email list. At the end of the week we take some of the most popular stories and post them to Greater Greater Washington, a group blog similar to streets.mn that focuses on urban issues in the DC region. […]
Map Monday: The Twin Cities’ Urban Heat Island
With this cold snap bringing temps into –15º territory, I was reminded that a few weeks back I posted Minnesota’s Carbon Donut, a map showing which parts of the state of Minnesota have households contributing a larger carbon footprint. With current temps it is probably worth a map on the urban heat island of the Twin Cities. In September, 2015, The Journal of Applied […]