Affordable air conditioning required builders to remove shade and ventilation features

Evidence

The ever-increasing amount of energy used for cooling was partly a sign that Americans could afford a higher level of comfort, but the air-conditioning load was also a consequence of decisions builders made in order to hold down the cost of new construction: To install air conditioning on a budget, builders eliminated traditional ways of providing shade and ventilation. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 289

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the earlier ch21-23 claims about builders deleting climate-adaptive features for cost reasons. — connects to: Manufacturers paid builders to delete climate-adaptive architectural features — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 262; Tract housing’s design deficiencies directly generated residential energy demand — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 264

Broader Connections

• Tract housing’s design deficiencies directly generated residential energy demand #expands (0.82) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 264