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Hot Houses - The impact of trees on residential houses

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posted on 2025-03-05, 00:13 authored by Emily FitzgeraldEmily Fitzgerald, Amanda BeltonAmanda Belton
<p dir="ltr">These were the printed documents used in the participatory mapping workshops for the Melbourne Centre for Cities Map of the Month project (https://www.unimelb.edu.au/cities/projects/current-projects/map-of-the-month).</p><p dir="ltr">These maps used OpenStreetMap to locate residential buildings in Greater Melbourne, and the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action Vicmap Vegetation – Tree Urban Point dataset to locate trees, with calculations run to determine amount of tree coverage per residence. </p><p dir="ltr">Following the participatory workshop, new maps were created for this theme and published in Pursuit at https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/these-maps-tell-us-we-need-to-cool-our-sweltering-streets. </p><p><br></p>

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