Urban greening ? easygoing sound out than done ! Dr. Wiebke Klemm has carried out research into the light-green , mood - proof excogitation of cities . In an interview with De Groene Stad , she explains how we can bridge over the break between scientific insight and greening in practice .
How can we ensure that subsist and next green space contributes more than ever to healthy and liveable cities ?
The Green Agenda concretize existing noesis about the working time value of verdure and helps to change over it into innovative applications . The result is comment for activity that contribute to an improved animation environs . Royal FloraHolland is working on this together with De Groene Stad .
Passion for landscape painting architectureWiebke Klemm explains : " My passion is to make urban outdoor space both attractive and functional . To create a pleasant environment in which to live , act upon and play , as well as an environment that contributes to a livable , healthy city . This includes planning , design and do urban greenish distance for a more rut - resistant metropolis . "
Towards a liveable city"Parks , tree and vegetation often roleplay a junior-grade part in the growing and pattern of city street . We often reckon urban green space as an ' object ' or ' furniture ' that make the public space ' more beautiful ' when all other spacial functions have already been distributed . But fleeceable means much more than just give our metropolis ' more beautiful ' . calculate at all the positive effects of a liveable and intelligent metropolis :
These literal ecosystem functions are name in legion scientific field . The question is how we realize this . How can we ensure that existing and succeeding green space impart more than ever to healthy and livable metropolis ? "
Are we heading in the correct direction?“Yes , in recent age new brainwave from science and praxis have become usable . We can translate this basis into the daily practices needed for creating and wield green space . The effective use of greenery starts by discover out which types of plants and trees can shorten heat stress and restrain flooding . We are also increasingly seeing that the issue of climate version is being tackled throughout the entire chain - from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree growers and landscape painting architects to landscape architect and managers . We must now imbed climate resiliency in procedures and on-going projects , and finally , make funding available . "
Is there a role for city inhabitant in this?“Absolutely ! All green space facilitate glower the temperature of a city - whether this fleeceable blank comprise of parks , greenish tram lanes or unripe front and back garden . Residents can also bestow to a better urban mood by green their gardens . Although there is often a want of awareness about this . My advice ? urge the correct people and set the veracious standards while at the same time pass around the content of the total value of green . At the moment , resident principally see the nuisance of Tree or greenery : ' They drop too many leaves , subjugate parking blank space and cause more bird dung . ' Encourage property owners to take up their own role , for model by make their front and back gardens greener , thus making the metropolis greener together with the municipality . "
The metropolis of the future"What I would wish is for greenery to become an integral part of urban center , as a thing of course . Not only by putting in plants as an rethink and/or ' because it look courteous ' . In the future , the design and layout of cities will be a matter of mixed software of water and greenery . In my idealistic metropolis , the coherence of dark-green geographical zone and green meshwork would be optimally utilize . As a result , the metropolis would offer people a sound and liveable environment - for living and working . "
Source : Royal FloraHolland
