Victoria Watcher posted topic The case for sunlight in building design - or shade?

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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "The case for sunlight in building design - or shade?" in forum "Urban Design".

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Should B.C. cities rethink their shade priorities? As temperatures climb, former chief planner warns B.C. cities need to rethink old ways of maximizing sunlight and minimizing building shadows. How much shade is too much shade? In B.C.'s warming cities, it's a question increasingly pushing city planners to rethink what building developments should get approved, and which should be reworked to avoid casting a shadow on a nearby public space.

Brent Toderian, a prominent urban-planning advisor who previously served as Vancouver's chief planner, said that for decades, cities across Canada have prioritized sunlight over almost everything else.

That might have made sense a decade ago when B.C.'s coastal cities saw gloomy, wet skies as the biggest damper on public spaces. But three years after a heat wave killed 619 people across the province, expectations have changed, and Toderian says city planners have failed to respond fast enough to the threat of deadly heat.

"They've been choosing sunlight over shade," he said. "It's been treated as almost an absolute rule."

"And we can't afford to keep doing that."



https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/should-bc-cities-rethink-their-shady-priorities-9313495 (https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/should-bc-cities-rethink-their-shady-priorities-9313495)
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