{"595133":{"#nid":"595133","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Urban Climate Lab authors report on importance of trees to cities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen the legislature began its special session, in mid-July, Gov. Greg Abbott urged legislators to outlaw municipal tree-conservation ordinances, which exist in about 50 Texas cities, including Dallas. He has called the ordinances\u0026mdash;requiring landowners to pay a fee for felling trees or to plant trees as compensation\u0026mdash;\u0026ldquo;socialistic\u0026rdquo; infringements on property owners\u0026rsquo; rights. At the same time, a Dallas-based nonprofit called the Texas Trees Foundation was working to finalize a report on an important study that shows exactly how beneficial trees are to big cities. Titled \u0026ldquo;Dallas Urban Heat Management Study,\u0026rdquo; the report reveals research conducted by the Urban Climate Lab of the \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E. The Texas Trees Foundation touts it as being \u0026ldquo;among the first comprehensive heat management assessments focused on a major U.S. city.\u0026rdquo; The short version: in Dallas, trees save lives. It all has to do with what researchers call the \u0026ldquo;urban heat island effect.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34447","created_gmt":"2017-08-28 16:01:10","changed_gmt":"2017-08-28 16:01:43","author":"bdiacetis3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"SVP-EL","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.dmagazine.com\/publications\/d-magazine\/2017\/september\/the-hottest-parts-of-dallas\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[{"id":"142","name":"City Planning, Transportation, and Urban Growth"}],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}