Buildings That Breathe: Greening the Worlds Cities Castaldo Nancy F.
Buildings That Breathe: Greening the Worlds Cities Castaldo Nancy F. Imagine looking out from your 18th floor apartment in the middle of the city and seeing trees right in front of you. These…
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Buildings That Breathe: Greening the Worlds Cities Castaldo Nancy F.
Imagine looking out from your 18th floor apartment in the middle of the city and seeing trees right in front of you. These projects are happening all around the world, and they will not only change the urban landscape, but they will provide urban dwellers with a healthier place to live and work.For Buildings That Breathe, author and environmental journalist Nancy Castaldo connected with architect Stefano Boeri at the World Forum on Urban Forests and was invited to his office in Milan where she visited Bosco Verticale, the first high-rise forest. In an effort to stem climate change, reduce pollution, combat heat, and protect biodiversity, architects are teaming up with botanists, urban wildlife ecologists, and other scientists to design high-rise forests, living walls, and vertical farms in some of the world's most populated places.
Planted with 750 trees,