Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot.
So why are so many of our trees being chopped down?
The fight to preserve urban tree coverage is a story with increasingly high stakes being played out across the globe from Malta to Hyderabad as locals show extraordinary courage standing up against the interests of big business to demand livable cities. In Madrid, the burning issue has been its city squares, where remodelling work over the past few years has transformed once communal spaces into inhospitably hot concrete expanses that drive tourists straight into the next air-conditioned shop.