The science of stifling heat: Recognising urban climate change in the Straits Settlements

• Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Urban heat; history; Straits Settlements; Asian Studies; Environmental Sciences; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3248; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4505/viewcontent/Science_of_Stifling_Heat_2020_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Heat is a ubiquitous part of tropical living. During the nineteenth century consumers and writers of travel literature, explorers and colonists became increasingly familiar with the endless, languid summers of tropical climates where continued, unrelenting heat and humidity created a daunting climat...