Forest Cities in China - strategy to achieve enviromental sustainability?
What are forest cities?
- small, compact and green cities
- made up of tall and middle size buildings surrounded by the leaves of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, so called “Vertical Forests”
- low energy consumption through vegetative filters
- take up little space, building vertically up
- purpose: "air-cleaners"
Why are vertical forests crucial for China's urban cities?
- improve air quality
Millions of people are abandoning the countryside and moving into cities. It's very important to completely change how these new cities are developing.
- Stefano Boeri
- internal migration
Where are they ?
Shijiazhuang
Where are they ?
Nanjing
Where are they ?
Liuzhou
Who is affected by this change ?
We think – and we hope – that this idea of vertical forests can be replicated everywhere.
- inhabitants breath fresh air
- China is closer to reaching its air pollution target
- world is a step closer to reducing the effects of climate change
How promising do you believe this change to be in achieving more environmental sustainability?
- promising
- suck carbon dioxide, produce oxygen
- absorb the dust produced by urban traffic
- the concrete needed to build vertical forests may produce more CO2 than the trees could absorb