The Unforeseen Issue With Skyscraper Canyons - Cheddar Explores

Have you ever walked down a city street in the winter and almost been blown off your feet by freezing wind? Well, it's the result of man-made street canyons. Towering buildings lining city avenues cause conditions like elevated temperatures, wind vortexes - and conditions that are a lot worse for our health. Cheddar explores why street canyons aren't just an annoyance.

SOURCES:
1: New York Times Archives: https://www.nytimes.com/1909/02/26/archives/furious-wind-storm-plays-havoc-in-city-a-man-fatally-hurt-by-a.html?searchResultPosition=69
2: American Thoracic Society: https://www.thoracic.org/about/newsroom/press-releases/conference/2019/health-of-the-air2.pdf
3: MIT: http://web.mit.edu/nature/archive/student_projects/2009/jcalamia/Frame/05_cany onwind.html
4: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/1520-0450%282000%29039%3C1592%3AALMOUS%3E2.0.CO%3B2
5: MIT: http://web.mit.edu/nature/archive/student_projects/2009/jcalamia/Frame/05_canyonwind.html
6: Environmental Health Perspectives: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553448/

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