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Elements of rooftop garden design
, 2017 This chapter focuses on the elements that must be considered when designing rooftop gardens and integrating them within buildings. Different types of rooftop gardens and how they can be integrated within existing and new buildings in order to enhance their environmental performance, better connect with their users and contribute to the amelioration of ...
Caputo, Silvio +2 more
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HorticulturaeExtensive green roofs can be used to provide spaces for local agriculture in urban environments, although extreme moisture and temperature conditions typically found in these systems can often be challenging for crop production.
Stuart Alan Walters +1 more
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Roof Gardens: A Green Solution for Ecology, Community, and Wellbeing
EncyclopediaGreen roofs have emerged as a key nature-based solution for improving environmental quality, strengthening urban resilience, and enhancing human wellbeing. In the hospitality sector—where sustainable design and guest experience increasingly intersect—the
Georgia Yfantidou +4 more
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Extraction of Open Spaces and Identification of Suitable Rooftops for Urban Agriculture: Contribution of Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Planning [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesUrbanization represents a major challenge, driving the conversion of agricultural land into high-value uses such as residential, industrial, and commercial developments, largely due to rapid population growth.
A. Moussaoui +4 more
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Urban PlanningBorders are essential in the current planning of cities since new forms of social relations are needed to support more sustainable ways of life. In this article, we present a case study of a sustainability-profiled new neighbourhood, Vallastaden in ...
Maria Eidenskog, Wiktoria Glad
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The Application of Economic Value Added on Green Facilities of Urban Agriculture
E3S Web of Conferences, 2018 Green facilities of urban agriculture offer a fertile ground for green innovation, such as rooftop gardens, green curtains, and indoor plant growing, which create a new forms of urban farming economy.
Hsu Kuo Wei, Liao Shang Zhen
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Ornamental HorticultureRooftop gardens provide valuable opportunities to increase green space and improve sustainability on college campuses. Nowadays, the Egyptians have begun implementing roof gardens on their buildings, but on a narrow scale, although university campuses ...
Ahmed Sayed Ibrahim Abdelnaby +3 more
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Development Process and Community Life at the Eco-village ′Sanneoul′ in South Korea
Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2018 This research presents the process of developing the ′Sanneoul′ Eco-village, located in South Korea, and describes community life in the village. Sanneoul village was created to welcome urban dwellers who choose to return to rural life and to prevent the
Yun-Cheol Nam
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A review of the role of nature-based solutions in mitigating food insecurity in Africa
Green Technologies and SustainabilityThe study explores the role of nature-based solutions in addressing food insecurity in Africa, with the broader goal of advancing knowledge in this field.
Solomon Asamoah +7 more
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Abstract: This paper depicted the significant challenges and hindrances to promoting Green Roofs (Roof-Top gardening) along with the role of green roofs in urban environmental sustainability. Urban environmental sustainability will be the biggest challenge of next 21st century as it has already been estimated that by 2050, more than two-thirds of the ...
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