As the temperature rises, plants ooze up from every crack and crevice, shoot out of clagged gutters and cracked chimney stacks. The urban greenvasion is underway.
But these isolated dots of green are insufficient for the needs of the city. There isn't enough to support even the simplest of ecostystems; insects limp from scrap to scrap, like sea-weary sailors seeking an island large enough to live on. Vast deserts of grey and dun and dust and dryness separate everything. Nothing links, so everything is only passing through. Most plants that try these spaces die in the dry. Nothing can permanently live here.
What could turn this around? What could permanently and sustainably green our cities? Over the next few posts I'm going to explore some ideas, big and small, about how to consolidate the summer greenwave into something more long-term; a way to transform our vagrants and invaders and green litter into a force for urban good.
But these isolated dots of green are insufficient for the needs of the city. There isn't enough to support even the simplest of ecostystems; insects limp from scrap to scrap, like sea-weary sailors seeking an island large enough to live on. Vast deserts of grey and dun and dust and dryness separate everything. Nothing links, so everything is only passing through. Most plants that try these spaces die in the dry. Nothing can permanently live here.
What could turn this around? What could permanently and sustainably green our cities? Over the next few posts I'm going to explore some ideas, big and small, about how to consolidate the summer greenwave into something more long-term; a way to transform our vagrants and invaders and green litter into a force for urban good.
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