Heat waves are a problem, no doubt, but you don’t solve it only thinking to big cities, like for pollution.
No, like the OP The Guardian article, I was talking about larger cities which have decent public transport. They are also hotter than their surroundings which makes relief more important.
Though specifically ozone is also problem in suburbia; it is formed there during the day by photochemical smog, but decomposes way slower than in the direct city areas.
No, like the OP The Guardian article, I was talking about larger cities which have decent public transport. They are also hotter than their surroundings which makes relief more important.
Stopping ICE cars only in big cities is a palliative if it is the only thing you do.
Take for example Milano: every day 600/700 thousand cars enter in the city simply because there are no (viable) alternatives. You have just shifted the problem in the immediate outskirt.
Maybe a better solution would be to mandate working from home during heat waves, this way you have way less people around, like with COVID, and way less people needing to use a car to enter the city. In the end big cities have not factories anymore, basically everyone can work from home. As a bonus public transportation would work better for the ones who need to go to the city
No, like the OP The Guardian article, I was talking about larger cities which have decent public transport. They are also hotter than their surroundings which makes relief more important.
Though specifically ozone is also problem in suburbia; it is formed there during the day by photochemical smog, but decomposes way slower than in the direct city areas.
Stopping ICE cars only in big cities is a palliative if it is the only thing you do.
Take for example Milano: every day 600/700 thousand cars enter in the city simply because there are no (viable) alternatives. You have just shifted the problem in the immediate outskirt.
Maybe a better solution would be to mandate working from home during heat waves, this way you have way less people around, like with COVID, and way less people needing to use a car to enter the city. In the end big cities have not factories anymore, basically everyone can work from home. As a bonus public transportation would work better for the ones who need to go to the city