Recreation Geography
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05 November 2009
Urban parks mitigate Urban Heat Islands
I have a class project this semester and we are looking into the urban heat island effect in Westfield MA. The students are blanketing the city tomorrow morning before dawn to measure the air temperature in this 40 square mile city. Some task, eh?
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