“A lot of Americans don’t know [heat] is the number one weather-related killer in the U.S.,” said Morgan Zabow, who manages the urban heat island mapping campaign.
tends to get hotter. When Wilson looked at old redlining maps that historically carved up the city by race, ethnicity and income and combined those with existing heat data, there was a close connection.
Last summer, Las Vegas took part and learned that bus routes ran along the hottest neighborhoods, Zabow said. The city leveraged that data to quickly secure a federal grant to add shading over bus stops. In Salt Lake City, officials supported the data collection efforts and are eager to see the maps that result.
Getting people to water trees in public parking strips regularly can be a challenge. Alessandro Rigolon, an associate professor at the University of Utah’s city and metropolitan planning department, said that he would like to see the municipality take on that job.
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