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The time has come: 90 sheep have arrived in the Schafflerhofstrasse PV plant in Vienna - Donaustadt, the largest such in Austria. The area of more than 12 hectares is perfectly suited for grazing and in a bid to maximise the green efforts of the city, they decided to get eco-friendly lawnmowers. “They go together wonderfully,” said Climate Protection City Councilor Jürgen Czernohorszky.

The experience of lockdowns across European cities has driven home the importance of access to green space to health and quality of life. In Spain, the political renewal seen in many towns after the municipal elections of 2015 helped push public space and biodiversity up the local agenda. Today, rewilded rivers in Madrid or Errenteria in the Basque country are examples of how investment and imagination can transform urban environments for the better.

Les grandes métropoles ont paru, lors du premier confinement, se repeupler d’animaux sauvages profitant du vide que nous leur avions laissé.

Les acteurs réunis au sein du BiomimCity Lab planchent sur des méthodologies communes pour construire des villes biomimétiques.

Après l'essor des jardins partagés pour réintroduire de la nature en ville, une nouvelle tendance émerge dans certaines grandes villes, les jardins-forêts ou micro-forêts. Une tendance portée par un élan citoyen, reportage à Montpellier.

Mayor  of Paris, Anne Hidalgo gave green light to €250.000.000 makeover of Champs-Élysées which will completely transform one of the most famous avenues in the world. Anne Hidalgo said the planned work, unveiled in 2019 by the local community, would turn the 1.9 km stretch of central Paris into “an extraordinary garden”. The Champs-Élysées committee …

A forest where every plant is edible will soon appear in the Dutch city of Utrecht, announced the local authorities last week. The food forest of 15,000 square metres will be in the new residential area of Rijnvliet which has itself been designed in 2017 so that each plant in the public space can bear edible fruit.

n the Austrian city of Linz, authorities are already planning for the problems that summer 2021 will bring – namely the high temperatures that adversely impact the health of locals. The problems, according to authorities are especially pronounced in urban centres. Officials aim to address the problem by promoting the creation of additional greenery on buildings, which would stabilize the temperature swings across the urban area.

L'Office national des forêts (ONF) met en avant son projet "Forêts urbaines", une offre d'expertise auprès des collectivités pour "réinventer la nature en ville".

Pedestrianisation of school surroundings and more natural environments to play in barely scratch the surface of the new municipal team's plans

This brief introduces a four-part series exploring nature-based solutions (NbS). Responding to identified gaps in existing knowledge about the social and economic sustainability aspects of NbS, the series seeks to explore their costs and benefits and how they can be developed without leaving anyone behind.

The goal of the city is to house two million bees on Wiener Linien's green spaces by 2022, which means around 80 bee colonies. "Public transport is an ideal place for bees. Along the rails, there are often unused areas where countless flowering plants can settle," said Alexandra Reinagl from Wiener Linien.

Urban green space improves people’s mental health and well-being: by now, this is a well-accepted proposition, with plenty of research to back it up. Based on this connection, cities are sprinkling pocket parks and green roofs throughout the urban mosaic. But is this enough? A new study suggests that city dwellers also need access to […]

The transformation of a Swedish shipyard into a haven for biodiversity inspired the UK capital’s ‘urban greening factor’ plan

Un répertoire de 60 solutions inspirées de la nature en milieu urbain

16 November, 2020 − Planting trees and creating urban parks brings more green spaces and cleaner air, cutting heart deaths and saving lives.