Singapore Roof Garden
A city is a city and I’m the first to advocate density, high density cities are much more sustainable than low density ones. Notice I used Singapore as an example. It’s a high density city but still has vast ammounts of greenery. I am not advocating huge ammounts of green space but rather large ammounts of greenery that uses the space that there is already.
I say put the buildings there first and pack them in very tightly, make the spaces relatively small and intimate. Then add greenery to those spaces, add trees, add small parks, gardens etc. I’m not saying locate the buildings far apart so that you can have large ammounts of green space around them.
I’ve noticed that many new parts of Chinese cities have big roads with wide pavements. Wide pavements are good on main routes but those pavements should have trees for shade and plants to separate pedestrians from the road. Buildings, especially tall buildings, should make creative use of roof space with sky gardens and similar things, you can even have plants growing up the walls.
This is what Singapore does well, they do not sacrifice density at all to achieve this.
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