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03 / Climate & culture
Water after dark
A night walk through the systems that keep a city cool.
The central idea
A city's second map
Blue-green corridors reveal a city measured in shade, airflow, and the time it takes for water to return to the ground.
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A canal is more than an edge; it can be living space and climate buffer. — Mathéo Tantot / Pexels · Mathéo Tantot / Pexels
A climate-ready city is a city that knows how to share its shade.
Numbers to begin with
Reading water after dark
2°C
temperature difference felt near a water corridor
30%
permeable surface as a first target for one block
24 hrs
to observe rain, pooling, and flow
A canal is more than an edge; it can be living space and climate buffer.