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Zonal statistics on a thermal remote sensing image for the City of Toronto revealed statistically significant differences between high average temperatures for commercial and resource\/industrial land use (29.1 \u00b0C), and low average temperatures for parks and recreational land (25.1 \u00b0C) and water bodies (23.1 \u00b0C). Furthermore, higher concentrations of either of these land uses were associated with more extreme surface temperatures. We also present selected neighborhoods to illustrate these results. 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