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The Solarpunk Meridian: U.S. Cities and Latin America''s Urban Innovations
American cities like to narrate themselves in asphalt and appetite—bigger freeways, taller chillers, longer commutes. Then the heat arrives like a bell the size of a sky, and the old grammar buckles. The most quietly innovative urban work of the last quarter-century has happened in Latin America—in.
Colonial Urbanism Solved Climate. We Forgot.
American cities keep patching problems with the wrong tools: we use 1926 style zoning to fight a 2025 climate, and we wonder why the patient keeps sweating. When in doubt, open the drawer with the old instructions. In 1573, a Spanish royal decree—the Ordinances for the Discovery, New Settlements.
The Shade Gap: Why Trees Are the Infrastructure America Forgot
A solarpunk blueprint for America's hottest century—rights, rules, and the civic art of lowering the temperature. Here is the short version of the
The Right to Shade: How Spanish Cities Built a Heat Commons America Forgot
How a Spanish-American heat commons can save lives, redesign streets, and teach the republic courtesy. The map of summer is a moral document. It shows where trees stand, where pavements glare, where bus shelters exist because someone cared enough to draw a roof.