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Villages in Spain and elsewhere use light wall colors, roof overhangs and narrow streets/walkways to keep paths shaded and cool. Also can orient for wind. Can m

Villages in Spain and elsewhere use light wall colors, roof overhangs and narrow streets/walkways to keep paths shaded and cool. Also can orient for wind. Can make it a bit more manageable. For really oppressive days, you put low flow misters along paths. In a village, you don’t go to HEB once every two weeks and get $400 in groceries. You walk to the market every day or two and shop. One tote bag. You send the kid to the butcher, fishmonger or for something you forgot. Completely different from sub/exurb lifestyle. Smaller hand trucks/carts would also be a norm, very common to see those in Europe with the elderly, delivery or tradesfolks. One aspect of the covid era was that many stopped walking to urban stores every day and made it a weekly thing or got delivieries. Kind of eye opening to see a city like SF return to crowded markets.

sbierwagen 5y ago
>Villages in Spain and elsewhere use light wall colors, roof overhangs and narrow streets/walkways to keep paths shaded and cool. Spain also had 12,963 excess deaths in the 2003 heatwave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave#Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave#Spain You can absolutely have a city without air conditioning. Humans have done it for thousands of years. The well-known tradeoff is that you are going to lose some elderly people during the summer.
albrewer 5y ago
Villages in Spain don't get 100 - 140" (10-12 meters) of rain a year and they don't have months of 100+ °F (38 °C) heat at 100% humidity. The extreme climate there is hard to describe.