{"title":"Open questions about the effects of ground warming on infrastructure","authors":"Alessandro F. Rotta Loria","doi":"10.1038/s44284-024-00151-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The ground beneath cities is warming and deforming owing to subsurface urban heat islands. Here, I discuss questions whose answers can help to develop the cross-disciplinary knowledge needed to determine which types of cities, neighborhoods, ground conditions and infrastructure may be most sensitive to this phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"1 12","pages":"804-807"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Cities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00151-4","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The ground beneath cities is warming and deforming owing to subsurface urban heat islands. Here, I discuss questions whose answers can help to develop the cross-disciplinary knowledge needed to determine which types of cities, neighborhoods, ground conditions and infrastructure may be most sensitive to this phenomenon.