The Piazza Navona in Rome is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD, and follows the form of the stadium.
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While Zanchini understands the perspective of cultural conservationists, he hopes to convince the decision makers in Rome to ultimately accept his view. “We need trees, shadow, water in public places where people live and tourists go,” he said. For now, the city plans to swap out asphalt with natural materials and install shading systems throughout the city, he wrote in an email.
Vienna found solutions too, implementing customized shading systems that act like sunglasses for buildings, and reviving a 19th-century system of air wells, deep underground shafts that draw in and cool fresh air before it flows through buildings.
In the case of Michaelerplatz, authorities are moving ahead with the roughly €8.5 million ($9.4 million) project, citing local support and close coordination with the Federal Monuments Office.
“People sometimes forget that people also live here. The city center isn’t just a historical showpiece,” said Markus Figl, head of Vienna’s inner-city district.
Less than three months before the renovation is set to wrap up, digs, construction barriers and excavators still line the busy square. Tourists sip coffee in view of the chaos; the heat-tolerant ash and elm trees have yet to arrive.
Jürgen Furchtlehner, a senior lecturer at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, appreciates the city’s efforts to mitigate heat, but warned that there’s still much to do.
“I’m very much in favor of trees as a natural cooling measure, planting as many trees as possible, as comprehensively as possible,” Furchtlehner said. “It’s important to do this not just selectively, not just for prestige projects, but to tackle the whole area.”
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