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The Park Apartments

The Park Apartments is a complex of block buildings which incorporates a green concept, such as an interior garden and balcony gardens, erected to create a space where architectural norms combine with environmental regulations and together deliver an oasis of peace in a crowded city, using holistic measures (1)

Digital Tree Path

A digital tree path was launched in Nancy in 2011. This is a path linking 24 trees equipped with QR codes (Quick Response Codes) throughout the city in order to discover them and their richness by scanning the code with a smartphone (Ref. 2). Information on the trees is also available online through the city's website as well as an Instagram account (Ref. 6).

Colentina river: ecological rehabilitation

The major objective of the project is the ecological recovery of five of the most important lakes of Bucharest in order to strengthen its tourist potential and attract new investments and tourists. The following lakes went under construction: Băneasa, Herăstrău, Floreasca, Tei, Pantelimon II. (1)

Green Gate Offices' Vertical Gardens

The NBS is a building of offices which includes vertical gardens. The building brings a unique "green urban concept" into the local market, reflected in the vertical garden and the courtyard, creating a natural, vast outdoor image and a "harmony with nature" environment on each floor. Linked gardens provide a space that will allow employees working in Green Gate to relax and socialize. (1)

Lidl City Shopping Center Green Roof

The first shopping center in Romania which has a green roof installed aiming at increasing environmental awareness among its consumers but also including a green space in an area surrounded by building blocks. (1)

Green space maintenance around social housing

In the context of significant cuts to Newcastle City Council's budget, the issue of how best to maintain the green space in the city integrated into, and surrounds, social housing has emerged. A proposal to allow, or promote, the re-wilding of these spaces (e.g. changing turfed areas to wildflower gardens) was discussed in March 2017. The key driver appeared to be the potential to reduce the costs incurred by the council in the maintenance of green spaces around social housing. (1)
During a Naturvation project meeting in March 2017, the potential for contestation around this proposal was discussed and seemed to be considerable (e.g. re-wilded green space might not be considered aesthetically pleasing by residents and might not provide preferred functions such as space to play sports).

Residential Vertical Gardens

The vertical gardens were installed on a property whose two street-facing facades are almost entirely covered with layered greenery. The building is a mini-lung and an example of sustainability for the city, keeping the principles of a living habitat and a relationship with the outside, assuming a revitalizing urban role. Its walls are completely covered with vegetation, creating a vertical garden, with around 4500 plants. (ref.3, 1)The architect who designed the property was originally commissioned to transform an old building but serious structural problems meant the building had to be demolished, and with the chance to start from scratch, considerations for a more radical design began. (1)

The vineyards of Poznan

The aim of the project was to plant many varieties of vines on flood embankments of the southern tip of Ostrow Tumski on a stretch of 1 km. Grapes would be free of charge, as the idea of the project was to set up a community garden where the effects of the citizens’ work would be available long-term and publicly accessible [1]. In 2014 the project was in a pilot stage which resulted in a successful application for funds from the participatory budget in 2016. Despite the awarded money, the project has never been implemented, hence the applicants (Foundation “Vineyards of Poznan”) pressed charges against City Hall. Today, the project is still in the initial form from its pilot phase [9].

Greening facades

The intervention was supposed to be implemented by the project group "Green Facades" consisting of the urban initiative "SchwarmFarm", the research project Quartier Zukunft and citizen volunteers. Greening facades in the Oststadt district of Karlsruhe with hops (climbing plant) to contribute to the cooling of the urban microclimate was their primary goal. Additionally, the harvested hops were envisioned to be used by local breweries for brewing (Ref. 1) Although the project group dedicated to the project was cancelled, there are plans to continue the project in private. (Ref. 2)
The leaders of the project have cancelled it, but it may still be implemented privately in a different form. (Ref. 2)

Agro-didactical park Salvatore Buglione

The didactic park Salvatore Buglione links its agricultural tradition and presence of plants and trees with social and cultural innovation (namely a playground for kids, a didactical botanical garden and an organized reading lab). A specialized lab aims at promoting civic and eco-functions, in line with the overall project of the city of Naples to allocate 2 million euros to regenerate the green areas of the city. The project “Orti Sociali” of the park represents an attempt to reach social inclusion and environmental awareness, underlying the crucial function of public parks in terms of environmental and social services (Ref.1.)