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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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A shade structure? Yes, a shade structure will dramatically reduce load on the AC of whatever is under it.
Would that help the larger city climate? Well sure, if it's trees. A giant umbrella over the top of a skyscraper? Who knows
I have to admit I was really thinking of houses - it seems to me a small expense for such a potentially substantial improvement, especially if done at construction time.
(None of this is to disagree with the idea of using lighter/more reflective roofing materials, FWIW.)
Edit - and I don't mean a giant umbrella or similar, I feel like a typical home could easily just have a structure the size of the roof and spaced a few inches out from it.