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Hot in the news: Joyce Klein Rosenthal’s research featured in TIME Magazine, Harvard Gazette, and the Daily Mail

Assistant professor of Urban Planning Joyce Klein Rosenthal‘s latest study of heat-related mortality in cities has garnered significant reponse—TIME Magazine, the Harvard Gazette, and the UK’s Daily Mail have featured it in the past weeks.

The TIME Magazine piece focuses on health equity and climate change, with Klein Rosenthal quoted as saying “Cities tend to be warmer, but it’s spatially variable within cities. … Generally, higher poverty neighborhoods are warmer and wealthier neighborhoods are cooler.” Klein Rosenthal’s recent research can be viewed in full at Health & Place.