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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I wish more cities would break open the pavement and plant more trees. It is notably cooler under the tree in my yard than under a parasol.
Even in my neighborhood there's tons of front yard/driveways which are fully cemented. If people would only break it open and plant something. :(
All this concrete just absorbs all the heat and keeps radiating it when it finally cools down. A bit of green in cities would do wonders ( and not just a green patch in a sea of concrete )...
Definitely! San Francisco has a program where they cut into concrete to create more space. Wish more cities were willing to be that radical.
The US needs to do green infrastructure like Australian cities.
Personally I have far higher ambitions than that... but it's certainly a start!
Now you're speaking my language!
Is that a real building or a rendering? And if it's real where is it?
Unfortunately just a render, we do have some green growth buildings like this one in Sydney but there's been a few proposed project of this sort over the last couple of years. Here's more on the rendered one.
Thanks. Unfortunately the renderings always look a little better than once its built. Growing vegetation on buildings is a cool idea but in practice it's a difficult due to the harsh environment and low soil volumes, which often lead to sick or dead plants. Hopefully they have the proper design and maintenance strategy to minimize that.
That said, this technique has a huge potential to increase greenery in cities as the article correctly points out--the vertical structure allows for more vegetation over the same footprint. Not to mention that high-rise areas of cities tend to have the least greenery of any development style, so I support any way we can squeeze it in there.
In response to a suggestion for a million tree planting campaign, one of my mentors once said we should instead aim for a trillion leaves. He was referring to the increased leaf area of larger trees, but the same applies to smaller plants that are stacked vertically like this. Trees are the most bang for your buck but I've thought about trying to develop a program to encourage green roofs, vines, and other greening of buildings because that's a lot of unused space at the moment.