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Why painting your home white could help you survive a heatwave

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par Rosa Schiano-Phan, Reader in Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Westminster

At a seminar on building cooling strategies in the late 1990s, I vividly remember hearing that “in 30 years time, the climate of London will feel like Marseille’s today”. That warning stuck with me. Back then, it sounded both alarming – and oddly appealing.

Three decades on, it no longer feels theoretical. As a Londoner of Mediterranean origin, I’ve lived through the shift. When I co-wrote The Architecture of Natural Cooling,…

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