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Seen a few people make this point and I love the optimism but this would truly be a nightmarishly bad idea. Funny, but extremely bad. Mostly for the same reason people climbing Everest and mountains like that have to wear sunglasses and sunscreen on any exposed skin despite being in some of the coldest climates in the world, white reflects UV radiation. Everyone would be going snowblind all the time, and it would also probably be a lot harder to make out what color the lines are and read street signs. Black makes more sense, but what makes even MORE sense is getting rid of the fucking roads and building trolleys and other forms of public transit that don't need black asphalt under them.

Urban/suburban vegetation: any amount of vegetation can aid in lowering the temperature by increasing evapotranspiration rates, especially trees which also provides a canopy, creating shaded areas

Shaded sidewalks/benches: we can't realistically shade the entire sidewalk, both because of scale issues and also sunlight is, in moderation, good for you, but having shaded areas, especially where rest amenities are like benches, can go a long way into making cities/suburbs more accessible in the heat

Shaded parking lots: I haven't seen an example of this irl but I know there's parking lots where the majority of it is shaded using solar panels, which is really just beautifully efficient

Underground paths/walkways: Toronto, for example, has a system of underground tunnels (imaginatively named PATH) which spans about 30 km and connects various office buildings, restaurants, etc. This helps pedestrians avoid the heat AND the cold in the winter, AND rain/inclement weather!

Non-reflective glass: less relevant for suburbs, but non-reflective glass absorbs solar radiation rather than reflecting it towards street level, which helps tremendously in keeping cities with lots of tall glass buildings cool. It does require more cooling within the building to balance it out, though, so it's not a perfect solution

Lots of other solutions like green roofs/walls, designing cities to allow airflow, dedicated vegetated areas/water features within cities (parks), permeable pavements, reflective roofs (as previously mentioned in this post)

The important thing to note is that these solutions are rarely, if ever, universally applicable, but the flip side of that is that at least some of these WILL be applicable no matter where you live, so it's a matter of figuring out which ones work and which don't.

Tucson could do a lot better in terms of shade, there are so many stretches of road with no plants or sidewalks or shade at all for miles sometimes. Outside of specific areas you can approach traveling here by foot as closer to hiking than walking. You need TONS of water, sunscreen, clothes that cover your skin, a hat, and ideally something to restore electrolytes. It's why one of the most popular local food chains sells these giant fuck off slushies for like $3.

Also to sell the importance or bevvy to the Europeans, in AZ at least there are laws stating that all buisnesses that serve food have to offer free water to anyone who asks regardless of if they're a customer or not. So people don't die because people die if you don't make that a law. That's the importance of bevvy here, it's genuinely life or death.

I also find people really overestimate their heat tolerance and it's why so many people die hiking here. You assume someone saying you need a gallon of water a day is being silly bcs people really only need 2 liters but no, once it's in the 90/40s and above you need more water especially if you're doing anything physical, you will be sweating buckets even in the shade and a gallon a day is the bare minimum. If you don't have enough water you get a heat stroke and if you're lucky get found fast enough you get to spend the day in the American ER getting pumped full of fluids. If you aren't lucky you die. There's a reason Trump not shading the line into his stupid rally ended with like 10 people having to go to the hospital with heat stroke. They're lucky no one died.

We should also have underground paths. I think the university has them but the rest of the city doesn't, they would really help, hell Tucson building a full subway would make everything easier and better but the construction would be insane and take like a decade probably. Still worth it, and better than the damn trolley that only goes to the rich parts of downtown and the university.