This special issue of the ACHR newsletter is on urban heat and passive cooling. Warm thanks go to the Climate Works Foundation for funding support and to all community members and their networks for so generously sharing their stories and knowledge. This newsletter shares stories of daily survival and ingenuity. These accounts of endurance, adaptation, and innovation lay the groundwork for the project’s final stage: the participatory development of passive cooling solutions for urban poor households in Asia, and a collective rethinking of housing and settlements in ever-hotter cities. Click here to read the ACHR Newsletter.