There's nothing wrong with air conditioning. I have central AC and love it.
But I spent my first fifty years in NYC pre-war apartment buildings. Before the days of air conditioning, many apartment buildings were designed to provide cross-ventilation through opened windows. Most apartments have several exposures. My last apartment faced east, south, and west. The western windows faced the street and air conditioners were not allowed on that side. It was to make the building look pretty. So I had an AC unit in an east window and a clothesline in a south window. It worked just fine.
The art of air conditioners . . .
