It seems to work every time, with films such as Heat, City Slickers, Titanic and Fight Club throwing up plenty of evocative lines for use by the satirists.
By the 1930s, they had recognised that good urban planning was key to heating cities: new Soviet cities wrought from the wilderness used massive, city-scale networks to channel heat from heavy industry into workers' homes.
But there's growing concerned that rules have been widely flouted, with foreign buyers pricing locals out of heated city property markets.
The series will follow the State's Attorney's dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators who navigate heated city politics and controversy head-on while fearlessly pursuing justice.
The asphalt pavement heated by solar has attracted great attentions in heating urban cities, so-called urban heat island (UHI).
While the heat turned cities into concrete ovens, there was respite at city pools, which were crowded, and state parks and beaches, where fees were waived to lure people out of their air-conditioned homes.
All the stone, brick and blacktop absorb so much heat that cities are six to eight degrees hotter than surrounding suburbs.
I'd be able to move away from all that obtuse, arrhythmic stuff about the sex heat of cities that had made me mildly famous in provincial English departments.
Called Bloom, the 7m-long prototype structure, resembling a flower made of 14,000 moving panels, could herald a new way to cool and heat our cities.
Heat affects cities because of the urban heat island effect and will increasingly affect these areas due to ongoing urbanization and climate change.
