Category: Parking Space
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Vertical Mobile Garden
Consists of living wall modules, which are wire frame cubes attached to a hook lift container platform. The vegetation cover is highly diverse, showcasing the potential of living walls to enhance amenity value and promote biodiversity. A light, partially vegetated open roof structure provides shade. The Green Living Room offers immediate benefits such as clean…
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Planting of Individual Trees
Strategic planning of individual trees or series of trees in urban areas to provide shade, reduce urban heat and reduce urban runoff. Benefits (+) Provide shade for citizens and reduce urban heat(+) Provide habitat for urban animals such as birds and insect(+) Reduce urban runoff and heat islands Limitations (-) Some tree species can have…
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Permeable Paving System
Green paving systems replace grey urban pavements with up to 50% vegetal soil with high drainage capacity. Several implementation designs exist such as paving bricks containing a certain share of space for vegetation growth space, or grass bricks that replace certain bricks of conventional pavements. Benefits (+) Reducing surface runoff.(+) They infiltrate, treat, and store…
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Parklets
Parklet provides opportunities for people to create small but important public spaces in the street or neighbourhood. It also turns a portion of the street beside the sidewalk into a people-only area and offers features including benches, vegetation, bike parking, and artwork. In another words, parklets promotes walking and bicycling. Benefits (+) multifunctional specially when…