Materials with relatively high thermal mass, such as stone, concrete ... An expressive illustration of an urban environment with a lush landscape that exemplifies the decarbonization of architecture.

In the new Phaidon book "Concrete Architecture," Los Angeles writers Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin examine a construction material that’s often derided as the building block of urban eyesores ...

This phenomenon is known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI ... But Arizona has used concrete pavement—a naturally cool pavement solution—since the 1920s, and forty years of success with the ...