London in the
future
Let’s face it; it is impossible to predict how our cities might change over the next 30 years, but we can speculate about what might happen if the UK, combined with other countries globally, failed to meet carbon reduction targets. Let’s start with the climate change predictions. By 2080, London’s summers are expected to be as warm as the Mediterranean climate of Marseille, but without the extra sun-hours. While some consider this ‘good’
news, the reality is that our urban and built environment is not built to cope with such weather. For example, in the 2003 heat wave,
© The Environmental Design Pocketbook – Map of UK cities and predicted 2040 future summer temperature ‘sister cities’.
Rainfall is not predicted to change, it is the distribution of rain which will become problematic.
climate problems?
A special
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