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Readings:

Swope, C. B., Hernández, D., & Cushing, L. J. (2022). The Relationship of Historical Redlining with Present-Day Neighborhood Environmental and Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review and Conceptual Model. Journal of Urban Health, 99(6), 959–983. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00665-z

Huang, S. J., & Sehgal, N. J. (2022). Association of historic redlining and present-day health in Baltimore. PloS One, 17(1), e0261028–e0261028. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261028

Hsu, A., Sheriff, G., Chakraborty, T., & Manya, D. (2021). Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2721–2721. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22799-5

Nowak, D. J., Ellis, A., & Greenfield, E. J. (2022). The disparity in tree cover and ecosystem service values among redlining classes in the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 221, 104370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104370

Exercise:

Please select an American city (choose whichever any from ps://www.tpl.org/parkscore.) and examine its heat island effect using The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore tool.