{"143241":{"#nid":"143241","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Assoc. Professor Brian Stone: Aggressive strategy could cut urban heat island effect in half.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECities run hotter than the countryside. There are a number of reasons why: the predominance of concrete, exhaust from cars, the angry people yelling at each other. Georgia Tech\u0027s Brian Stone says an aggressive strategy could cut the urban heat island effect in half, shaving 5\u00b0F to 7\u00b0F off temperatures on a hot summer afternoon for a large city.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2012-07-30 13:59:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:51","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"book review editor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/grist.org\/news\/as-temperatures-rise-cities-are-getting-hotter-faster\/","dateline":{"date":"2012-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1349","name":"Brian Stone"},{"id":"167159","name":"school of city and regional planning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}