{"id":211731,"date":"2025-10-29T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-yaounde-is-set-to-sizzle-at-38c-by-2030-how-green-design-could-cool-cameroons-capital\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:29:35","slug":"cameroon-yaounde-is-set-to-sizzle-at-38c-by-2030-how-green-design-could-cool-cameroons-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-yaounde-is-set-to-sizzle-at-38c-by-2030-how-green-design-could-cool-cameroons-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Yaound\u00e9 Is Set to Sizzle At 38\u00b0c By 2030 &#8211; How Green Design Could Cool Cameroon&#8217;s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Yaound\u00e9, the Cameroonian capital, is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city where green hills meet modern architecture, creating a harmonious blend of culture, history and urban dynamism. The city has expanded significantly over the years because of urbanisation &#8211; its population <a href=\"https:\/\/saudijournals.com\/media\/articles\/SJHSS_105_214-223.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has grown<\/a> from 59,000 in 1957 to nearly 4.1 million in 2020. Its expansion, however, has brought about a sharp decline in vegetation, turning the city into a collection of urban heat islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"90\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/13504509.2025.2566788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent study<\/a> says that Yaound\u00e9 will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510270010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaound\u00e9, the Cameroonian capital, is a vibrant, cosmopolitan city where green hills meet modern architecture, creating a harmonious blend of culture, history and urban dynamism. The city has expanded significantly over the years because of urbanisation &#8211; its population has grown from 59,000 in 1957 to nearly 4.1 million in 2020. Its expansion, however, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[52717,258,256,4698,377,4331,6959,11691,9238,12626,257,7106,52716,254,378],"class_list":["post-211731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-38c","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-capital","tag-cool","tag-design","tag-green","tag-news","tag-set","tag-sizzle","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yaounde"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}