What do pavement temperatures have to do with property values?

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[huggybear]

You gotta reshoot the clip if you meant 6-10% 😂 that’s wildly different from 6 to 10 times 💀

[richertai]

"And if you look closely, you can see that quite a few of these areas used to be black middle class neighborhoods that were burned down, bulldozed, or flooded to displace those uppity folks and free up all that real estate for development. Like Central Park."

[joshuastover]

There should be greenery in suburban and urban areas, it’s just depressing without green.

I’m also a firm believer we should be building solar panels over parking lots so the cars are shaded and the area becomes duel purpose, rather than building solar farms over prime agricultural land.

[KC-]

“Unless we do something to fix it”

Let’s take Phoenix, and push it somewhere else!

[addabad]

Widen the gap in property values?? Sounds great if you're rich! (Or are a temporarily embarrassed millionaire)

[jake]

I didn’t expect Morning Brew to turn into an urbanism and labour issues channel, but I’m all here for it 🫡🫡

[megamaster]

They don’t release the hast periodically throughout the but rather continuously throughout the day. It’s not like the asphalt has a timer or different states

[barnmaddo]

I think trees might mostly cool things down because of evaporative cooling. Their shade doesn't actually cool things down, in fact they probably reflect less sunlight, and absorb more sunlight turning it into heat, than concrete. Trees however do drink a lot of water though, and then release most of that water as a mist.

[beplanking]

Well that area in Phoenix is a small mountain range in the middle of the city, which is probably why it's greener and not paved over

[octaviocuesta]

Chicago has one of the best designed systems of parks and parkways within city limits and you circled... Winnetka, Illinois.

[emmanuelc]

Then the vegetation dries up
And fires start

[skyisreallyhigh]

Solution: Make everywhere green in cities.

[joerimorpurgo]

Interesting stuff, though I doubt that the UHI-effect is a strong driver of the house-prices. Rather, often the opposite happens. Household and neighbourhoods with more wealth tend to invest more in green spaces.

[ADobbin]

so the way to lower property prices for normal people is to bulldoze all the greenspaces and make everything concrete.

[cabnby]

Land lord tore down 6 magnificent trees for the sake of maintenance

[bd_mayhem]

I'm not sure you're making the point you think you're making about Phoenix. If you look at the lighter areas, you often find lighter colored roofs and xeriscaping. Darker areas have trees and lawns that use way more water than the desert that is Phoenix can provide.

[Catssonova]

Great solution: build good transit so you don't have so many blasted cars and so much needed road capacity

[John-zhud]

I don't think the heat index has anything to do with it... people just don't want to live in dense hellscapes regardless of the temperature.

[_StandardIssue]

Yea I don’t think that the climate considerations are what are driving the disparity in property values. I think it’s as simple as more green neighborhoods are more attractive.

Also, if you were able to green your neighborhood in the first place, chances are the neighbourhood is wealthier so that’s likely a confounder.

[antonhalk]

Reminds me of when Elon thought for a minute on what would be a solution to trees being cut, and couldn't figure it out. Let that sink in