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Brisbane @ Top

Brisbane is rated as one of the top green global cities.

Brisbane City Council is a great place to start when it comes to assessing urban eco credentials — it’s one of Australia’s largest carbon neutral-certified organisations and slashes 600,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

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Shift towards Sustainability

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Climate Change and biodiversity loss and pollution are just some of the issues facing the world’s rapidly growing cities as urban populations swell.

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Green Infrastructure Benefit

"We must learn to work more and better with nature."

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Prague_Blue Green District

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Green Roofs_Promise or Myth

Brooklyn Navy Yard, an industrial complex on Brooklyn’s waterfront, just installed a group of new environmentally friendly rooftops. The project is a partnership with New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection Green Infrastructure Grant program (DEP), which aims to reduce stormwater “and help keep it out of our sewer system,” said the city’s DEP commissioner, Vincent Sapienza.

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Vegetated Cities

With living walls on skyscrapers and offices sprouting rooftop forests, green buildings have never been so popular.

Vegetation is returning to our cities. The trend started with rooftop planters on City banks in the 2000s, before spreading to the occasional green wall on a luxury hotel. Now, entire urban blocks are being transformed with ever-more ambitious plant projects.

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Austria_Green Roof

The aim for House Mesh’s design, in Austria, was to be integrated into the environment and built from future-oriented materials, and for the vegetation, layer removed by the excavation to be returned to the landscape on the roof.

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Barangaroo Project

The fully accessible, amphitheatre-style boardwalk extends out to create a new public pier, with huge sandstone blocks providing informal seating areas and native species trees creating a shady backdrop to the open waterfront. A feature Fig tree has been planted on part of the original dockside structure.

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