Urban Cool Islands
As we all know, global warming is happening quickly and new phenomenon's have began to erupt from such. One of those being Urban Cool Islands (UCI) - defined by IGI GLOBAL as "cooler urban areas compared to non-urban/rural surroundings." This is a sensation that occurs in arid areas with little vegetation in the countryside outside the city due to the urban area itself having a lower temperature. This is not a very common theme among urban areas as they are usually much hotter than their respective rural areas due to emissions from buildings, industries, transportation, and just the high population of people. In various cities around the world have been addressing this concern, in France for example, "discussed procedures with urban planners and investors in the aim of incorporating a set of reasonable measures for local climate adaptation in a particular new urban area" (ScienceDirect). If you were to look at an area like Phoenix, Arizona, an extremely urban a...