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"To travel through Stuttgart is to visit past sins and glimpse a promising
future. This German manufacturing hub is where the gas-powered automobile was
invented in 1886. Porsche and Mercedes still manufacture their luxury cars
here, and these companies’ local museums celebrate a time when the chrome
curves of sports cars symbolized speed instead of a climate crisis.
But when you drive into Stuttgart, descending into the city from the
surrounding hills, you may notice an unusual feature of the urban landscape:
tree-lined parkways and lush corridors of green. Like the cars the city is
famous for, these corridors are the product of meticulous engineering — a vast
network of ventilation channels that carry cool breezes from the chilly hills
into the urban core.
Rainer Kapp, the chief city climatologist, says Stuttgart’s ventilation
strategy is like to “opening the windows at night in your apartment to let the
fresh air in.”
Stuttgart may be the only major city in the world intentionally designed to
cool itself with the naturally lower air temperatures that drape the terrain
beyond its borders. It is a remarkable example of what scientists call
“nature-based responses” to climate change — solutions that leverage the
earth-cooling tools readily available to us in the natural world."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
