Themes

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  Water challenge

  Heavier rainfall asks for readdressing urban water management

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  Tanner Spring Park, Portland © atelier GROENBLAUW

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  Heat

  More urban green keeps the city cooler

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  Garden roof in Stuttgart, Germany © Optigroen

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  Biodiversity

  There is more biodiversity in a city than most people expect.

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  Bees using small holes as a nesting place © Albert Dijkhuizen

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  Urban agriculture

  Urban agriculture brings us closer to our sources.

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  Villa Augustus, Dordrecht, The Netherlands © atelier GROENBLAUW, Amar Sjauw En Wa

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  Air quality

  Well-designed green structures enhance urban ventilation.

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  Waterfront Vancouver © Fairmont Hotels & Resorts

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  Energy

  There is still much unused potential in sustainable decentralized urban energy and heat production.

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  ‘Das Sonnenschiff’, the solar ship © Rolf Disch Solar Architecture, Freiburg, Germany

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  The social and economic importance of green and blue areas

  In sustainable neighbourhoods people on average are healthier and children play outside more often.

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  Tanner Spring Park, Portland © atelier GROENBLAUW

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  Process

  A sustainable and climate-proof city requires multi-discilplinary collaboration

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  “Another world is plantable!”, Guerilla Gardening in Berlin © Rosa Rose