Yesterday the New York Times honored the shortest twenty-four hours of the twelvemonth amongst its ain mapped homage to the sun. In Mapping the Shadows of New York City the NYT has created a genuinely beautiful map which shows the extent that the city's tall buildings block the Sun throughout the year.
The Times says that well-nigh Manhattan neighborhoods volition stay inwards shadow for at to the lowest degree one-half of daylight hours. They every bit good claim that the amount of fourth dimension a place spends inwards shadow during daylight hours tin sack acquit upon everything from floor rental prices to the menstruum of human foot traffic on the city's streets.
To calculate the extent of edifice shadows inwards winter, summertime together with spring/fall the NYT used 3d edifice information provided past times the city. With the help of the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University they together with hence calculated the full publish of minutes that a given scream for spends inwards shadow over the form of a twenty-four hours based on the meridian together with place of nearby buildings.
