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dreaming-of-brent · 7 months

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London Uncovered Deck

An illustration of a medium-sized, modern rooftop garden with containers that aren't covered

#rooftop dining #accent lighting #raised planters #cedar fencing #city roof garden #umbrella stand #porcelain paving

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invoke-parlay · 11 months

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Leizi being so majestic in the garden 🪴

#cats #cat art #cat photos #kitty #kitten #kittens #roof #urban gardening #city #alternative #nature #leizi #deck #sunny #warm #blue skies #clouds

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qualitysigns · 1 month

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Garden City, Michigan, USA

#quality signs #regular ass panel on a roof #banners #window vinyl #garden city mi #usa #there is a lot going on here™

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cujus · 10 months

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#paris france #roof tops #home garden #city view

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mykyeonrye · 2 years

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i’m so glad that more leftists and people in general are talking about concepts like walkable cities and public transportation. imagine how beautiful it would be if america adopted better public transportation systems , roof gardens, community gardens, communities that work together and not against each other, a blend of nature and technology and architecture... it could be so magnificent... a better world is possible , i just don’t know where to start

wouldn’t you rather ride a train or a bus than a car though? or be able to ride your bike easily around the city for free? idk the more i think about this the more problems i get into like making cities more disability and house less friendly, better housing in general , ROOF GARDENS <3

#kyle speaks!#leftist #roof garden #infrastructure #walkable cities #biking #nature #idk #i need to learn more but i’ve always wished i could get around town safely... i can’t go anywhere #they are expanding walking paths in my city though which helps but it’s such a small step #if someone has a blog about stuff like this that would be cool

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duskoscrawl · 2 years

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there's something so magical about being able to transfer the map of rexxentrum from the egtw into minecraft. i walked into the space that will be caleb's kitchen last night and it was wonderful. and i have not yet built the roads, but yet i can walk down where they will one day be and find the spot where the rexxentrum archive of the cobalt soul will be. i have marked the fences of the mosaic ward and plotted in houses and workshops and roads for the tangles. and one day, when i zoom out a minecraft map enough, i will be able to see the map im working from recreated in blocks

#chill to reblog #critical role #and its a fantasy city so i can put towers fuckin wherever i want #and all the roofs are gothic #i blocked out caleb's home in wool and i can walk through my fics #i can walk through the door and see the cupboard where the tower goes #and i know the layout of the garden and the view from the window #cant wait to get to castle ungebrock and the candles #astrid's candle in particular

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emvisual · 2 months

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En las grandes ciudades del país de las armas andan escasos de zonas verdes. Ya se sabe que en USA solo se recauda impuestos para carreteras, policías y ejercito. Lo demás da igual.

Por eso en Nueva York hay tantos jardines en los tejados.

#nueva york #new york #usa #roof #garden #tejado #jardin #city #ciudad #urban #urbano

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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterﬂy.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024