Planners in Phoenix are working to reduce the impacts   of increasingly frequent summer heat waves. City officials hope to make Phoenix   a laboratory for testing strategies to mitigate increased urban temperatures.   Ideas being considered including covering 25 percent of Phoenix with shade   trees, and zoning for higher and more-dense buildings. 
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