An investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource.
Bloch’s book has good ideas that architects and policy leaders can embrace to better use shade to protect people from the world’s increasingly hot weather.
A roving, inveterately curious account that argues convincingly for his subject’s centrality to community health ... Measured ... [Bloch's] tone is so evenhanded that it can belie the urgency that would seem to follow from his diagnoses .... Part of the issue is that Bloch tends to toggle between Los Angeles and the country writ large ... This collapse risks giving the impression that the United States is uniformly bad on shade ... More examination of cases where U.S. cities have made different choices might have sustained the nuance of his earlier chapters.
