Adapting to the inevitability of the 40oC city, Climate Change Adaptation ‘by Design Guide’ for sustainable communities, published by the Town and Country Planning Association, May 2007. The guide shows how adapting towns and cities to climate change offers enormous potential for creating high value, quality places where people and businesses will want to spend time. “We must adapt to the inevitability of the 40oC city. Without very strong action we will see temperatures in many UK cities sitting above 40oC for long periods of the summer. The social and economic, not to mention environmental, implications of this will be far reaching and threatens to undermine the long term desirability of towns and cities as places to live and work.” “Responding to this requires innovative use of space wi