Understanding urban heat

Understanding urban heat

Urban Heat is packed with facts about the hidden forces within cities and is a beautifully illustrated science book by the urbanist H. Marina Cole. The aim of the book is to present enough knowledge to understand the many (17) ________ of the debate about overheated cities. Cole is alarmed about the way the public has been (18) ________ on this issue, being pushed towards certain positions on urban planning by the campaigning of (19) ________ and the news media’s need for a good story. She wants to demonstrate that urban heat is an (20) ________ complicated issue, and that making overly simplistic (21) ________ will inevitably (22) ________ our understanding. She therefore (23) ________ emphasises that city records are short, often incomplete and tricky to compare. Cole suggests that, in earlier decades, urban districts experienced temperature differences far greater than those measured in modern times. It is the (24) ________ detail with which these recent measurements have been recorded that differentiates them from the past.