Green urban infrastructures
Practitioner group
Nature in the city
The benefits and costs related to green infrastructure in cities need to be better understood through assessment tools that measure environmental impacts, for example, carbon emissions due to the transport of substrates,
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Pilot site
Vegetable rooftop at AgroParisTech
AgroParisTech’s experimental rooftop has been used since 2012 to design urban agriculture systems in rooftop boxes, using urban residues as components of technosols, with the aim of studying the services provided by
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Tool
Biodi(V)strict®
This diagnostic tool for the state of biodiversity in a neighbourhood compares the impact of different construction or rehabilitation projects on biodiversity in the city.
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Project
Contribution of urban revegetation to urban heat island mitigation
A thesis project to understand to what extent the revegetation of the urban environment helps regulate the urban microclimate and contributes to the improvement of air quality.
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Post
Editorial: why a practical guide to rooftop vegetable gardens?
Historically, agriculture has forged our societies, in terms of both their social and spatial organisation. While the development of agriculture has led to sedentarisation and so the establishment of cities, the urban
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Press release
Urban agriculture: how to implement it on rooftops and terraces? A practical guide.
Urban farming is at the crossroads of the environmental concerns and the societal aspirations of citizens. Responding to the need of revegetating urban spaces involves making a better use of rooftops that are currently
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