Our cities were built on one of modernity’s deepest abstractions: the belief that civilization begins where nature ends.

This is why even the category of green space is often insufficient. A park can offer shade and cooling, yet still preserve the deeper logic of separation by containing nature as an exception within urban space.

During heatwaves, the limits of this model become impossible to ignore.

Air conditioning privatizes survival.

Trees socialize cooling.

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