EcoZIHdio en La Ropa

You are right saying more concrete equals higher temperatures. Ixtapa is noticeably cooler first thing in the morning, because there´s so much original jungle/green space remaining there.

It´s an old complaint, as Joni Mitchell sang some 50 years ago: "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

As long as folks associate a newly paved surface with an increase in their property values, which partially explains these enthusiasms, nothing will change.