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Roshe Wong, business development manager at Sky Greens, told us about how they have overcome the challenges in the smart farming opportunity space and on what the future of urban vertical farming looks like to him.

Navy Pier is getting ready to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2016 with the Centennial Vision — an exciting renovation project that will reimagine the iconic Navy Pier into a bolder, greener and more contemporary urban space.

About Sibley Square WinnDevelopment is reshaping Downtown Rochester with a multi-year project to transform Sibley Square into a vibrant, mixed - use urban center, featuring the best apartment homes in Rochester, Class - A office space, green living, elegant landscaping, premier security systems and centralized transportation.

The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban cooling.

With urban populations exploding in megacities like Tokyo, Shanghai, and Delhi to well over 20 million people — it is important to understand how green spaces contribute to urban sustainability.

A new University of Washington study finds that urban crops in Seattle could only feed between 1 and 4 percent of the city's population, even if all viable backyard and public green spaces were converted to growing produce.

Indeed, this work is the first to be published in a series of papers understanding the impact of green and urban spaces on brain activity in older adults.

Conserving green spaces, restoring native plant species and adding biodiversity - friendly habitats within urban landscapes could, in turn, support more bird and plant species.

In the year after people moved from less green to greener urban spaces, they experienced a significant boost in mental health markers such as mood and confidencIn the year after people moved from less green to greener urban spaces, they experienced a significant boost in mental health markers such as mood and confidencin mental health markers such as mood and confidence.

Today the High Line, which opened in 2009, provides locals, commuters and tourists with more than a kilometer of green space several meters above the urban bustle below.

Town planners may not have understood the high importance residents put on easy access to generous amounts of green space in urban areas.

But now researchers can study smaller groups of subjects to see how specific factors — for example, noise in the home or proximity to a green space — play into mental illness and, more broadly, urban stress.

When it was first proposed, no comparable urban green space could be found in the whole of the United States — and it seemed unlikely that one would arise on land that could be put to other, more profitable use - especially with New York real estate values on a steady rise.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

Similarly, new local research found that green spaces in urban environments had a positive influence on health.

«Even in an urban environment, proximity to green spaces provides a much richer population of colonizing microbiota versus urbanized environments such as parking lots.»

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Many children are living in densely populated urban conurbations with little or no access to green space.

Paramount School of Excellence, Indianapolis, IN Turnkey Development Program: Renovation with addition, transforming a 50 - year - old building, in 4 1/2 months, into a green, non-traditional urban elementary learning spacIN Turnkey Development Program: Renovation with addition, transforming a 50 - year - old building, in 4 1/2 months, into a green, non-traditional urban elementary learning spacin 4 1/2 months, into a green, non-traditional urban elementary learning space.

When building a sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, powering by alternative sources and superb visibility in all light conditions.

But just as e-signage presents an opportunity for a city's development, it is not without its challenges: to enable a city's evolution into a truly smart, and therefore sustainable and green urban living space, digital signs should support energy saving features, be implementable even at the most demanding of locations, power grid or no, and feature superb visibility in all light conditions.

A concrete jungle it might be but it is also regarded as one of the greenest cities in Africa — a veritable urban forest with around 10 million trees and green spaces, the most popular of which is a real family gem — the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens.

Probably the most famous and popular green space though is Brussels Park, which has some beautiful statues and fountains to wander around and is the largest urban park in the city.

In October 2016, two students Katelyn Mann and Jesse Brekelbaum from the Green Mountain College in Vermont, studying Urban Ecology, visited the New York City field station and conducted several field visits in New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in QueenIn October 2016, two students Katelyn Mann and Jesse Brekelbaum from the Green Mountain College in Vermont, studying Urban Ecology, visited the New York City field station and conducted several field visits in New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in QuGreen Mountain College in Vermont, studying Urban Ecology, visited the New York City field station and conducted several field visits in New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Queenin Vermont, studying Urban Ecology, visited the New York City field station and conducted several field visits in New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in QuUrban Ecology, visited the New York City field station and conducted several field visits in New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Queenin New York City, covering a range of urban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Quurban green space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Qugreen space site types in including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Queenin including the Brooklyn Grange; a rooftop farm in Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Queenin Brooklyn and The Beach 41st Houses Garden and Edgemere Landfill in Queenin Queens.

Standards Variance is a group show of speculative proposals around what is possible for urban space (empty lots, abandoned buildings, storefronts, green - space, etc.) in Chicago.

History, culture, climate, objectives, available space, an urban or a country context are all elements that concur to create an incredible diversity in those green spots, or large parks, that are often associated with museums.

All 275 streetlamps in the park will emit blue light instead of white, vividly transforming the nighttime experience of Amsterdam's most well known urban «green space.»

Erin holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from St. Edward's University, in Austin, TX, and a master's degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she wrote about intersections of gender, contemporary art, and urban space.

Multiplicity featured a wide - ranging selection of works exploring culturally and geographically distant urban spaces, curated by Marco Antonini in collaboration with a network of curatorial advisors based in Belfast, Hong Kong, New Delhi, New York, Tel Aviv and Tirana, and presented as a series of four consecutive exhibitions hosted by NURTUREart, Mixed Greens, INVISIBLE - EXPORTS and Union Docs.

Both inventions are part of her flexible and lightweight roofing system, which also includes hexagonal, pond, and silicone planters that can be grouped together in various configurations to create a green environment in black - tar urban spaces.

The vertical garden, or «green wall,» was developed in order to maximize the use of available surfaces in congested urban spaces.

In its artistic projects and interventions, the ZKR aims to show new perspectives on urban structures and the green open spaces within urban environment.

Beginning with his first major commissioned work, «Time Landscapes» in Greenwich Village, NYC, Sonfist received critical acclaim for his innovative use of urban spaces to design havens of nature and green art.

Seed bombs began as a fun and friendly tactic for greening abandoned lots in urban spaces.

A long - term study by the University of Exeter revealed that people living in urban areas with greater amounts of green space were happier than those who didn't.

As Terry Hartig of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Sweden's Uppsala University writes in an accompanying commentary article for The Lancet, «This study offers valuable evidence that green space does more than pretty up the neighbourhood; it appears to have real effects on health inequality, of a kind that politicians and health authorities should take seriously.»

«How Forests Heals People,» filmed in India, Yosemite, and forests on the U.S. East Coast, is relevant across the globe, as people in every urban setting know how psychologically draining cities can be, and how a foray into green space have an incredible ability to make everything feel much better.

Finding a place to hike or picnic in Scotland's cities just got easier with the introduction of what is thought to be the world's first comprehensive, interactive online map of urban green space — 429 square miles in all.The interactive map, prepared by the charitable organization Greenspace Scotland with government support, allows anyone with access to a computer to search for green space using place names or postcodes, or just by scrolling around, the BBC reported today, noting the environmental as well as recreational benefits:

As more people are living in urban areas, developers and architects are recognizing this and making a commitment to creating outdoor spaces with green roofs to provide that better quality of life.

This colorful accent living wall for an intimate urban patio is crafted by Emma Lam of A Small Green Space, a fun urban garden design / build firm based in Jersey City.

Brooklyn Grange specializes in green roof, rooftop farm and urban green space design and construction.

Innovative urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban design could create increased access to active transport.99 The compact geographical area found in cities presents opportunities to reduce energy use and emissions of heat - trapping gases and other air pollutants through active transit, improved building construction, provision of services, and infrastructure creation, such as bike paths and sidewalks.303, 318 Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311Urban planning strategies designed to reduce the urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban heat island effect, such as green / cool roofs, increased green space, parkland and urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban canopy, could reduce indoor temperatures, improve indoor air quality, and could produce additional societal co-benefits by promoting social interaction and prioritizing vulnerable urban populations.311urban populations.311, 303

when combined, these factors are sometimes referred to as «urban morphology»... «urban morphology (the hottest zones in the city are those with the tallest and the highest density of buildings, without green spaces and with intense generation of heat from traffic, commerce and services);»

However, growing urban poverty and food insecurity, high costs of green open space and solid waste management, the need for recreational opportunities in the urban and peri-urban area, tend to modify thinking of planners and authorities and a more «agricultural» approach (farmers as povery reduction strategy; farmers as waste reusers; farmers as landscape managers and providers of recreational services, etcetera).

The contributions of forests, trees and other urban green areas to the quality of urban life and the urban environment are discussed and existing good practices in urban (agro --RRB- forestry and other types of comprehensive green - space planning and management are reviewed

Green Spaces in Iran are Cluttered with Trash Fast - growing urban populations and the rapid spread of the kind of consumer culture that generates so much trash in the first place seem to have outpaced any type of consciousness about littering in Turkey, a problem apparently shared with neighboring Iran.

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Canada is one of the most urbanized countries in the world, so protecting and expanding our urban green space could be a key adaptation method for Canadian cities.»

In addition to offering areas for recreation and benefits to mental and physical health, urban green spaces «filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events,» according to the agency, whose recent assessment on urban ecosystems concluded that «with the right policies and tools, urbanization does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond.&raquIn addition to offering areas for recreation and benefits to mental and physical health, urban green spaces «filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events,» according to the agency, whose recent assessment on urban ecosystems concluded that «with the right policies and tools, urbanization does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond.&raquin cities and beyond.»

The natural (and urban) places where we live have stories to tell, hidden in the landscape of trees, boulders, streams, as well as in the city's network of alleys, balconies and green spaces.