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Australia’s New City Bradfield Tackles Climate Change From the Ground Up
- helsinkiandrew 4y agohttps://archive.ph/XnjPN https://archive.ph/XnjPN
- helsinkiandrew 4y ago> ... a brand new city in a pocket of Australia where temperatures can be among the hottest on earth in the summer and climate change looms as a major threat. > In January 2020, as wildfires ravaged Australia’s east coast, the temperature reached 48.9C in the Sydney suburb of Penrith, about 14 miles from Bradfield, making it the hottest place in the world. Tree line streets and vegetation can cool the area but they do have the disadvantage of being flammable. It would take some very good reasons for me to move to a place that is hot by Australian standards and could get a lot hotter in the future.
- jaclaz 4y ago>... an area of about 11,000 hectares, around the size of 16 Manhattan blocks. As a side-side note I welcome the use of a new unit of measure, besides schoolbuses and football fields. But: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block >The standard block in Manhattan is about 264 by 900 feet (80 m × 274 m). So a block is 80x274=21,920 sqm or around 2.2 hectares: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hectare Somthing is way off, another source talks of 114 hectares: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/bradfield-city-gets-1bn-for-western-sydney-airport-development/100215240 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-15/bradfield-city-gets-1... but, for the masses, it clears that "The size of the city once completed will be about 60 per cent of Sydney CBD".