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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Environment : Turning a Concrete Jungle into an Urban Forest

How do you turn a city of concrete buildings with not much land space to plant trees into an urban forest? Simple : Plant trees on building rooftops.  Getting an inspiration from the ancient wonder : Hanging Garden of Babylon, that is how Lebanese Architect Wassim Melki plan to turn the city of Beirut into a rooftop garden city and make it green.

I think this is one of the most ingenious ideas on urban greening project I have encountered. And I hope Beirut pushes through with the project because the idea is beautiful, doable and eco-friendly. 

I have seen one or two private buildings here in Manila with rooftops converted into tree and shrub gardens. And they really look great and "cool". 

Click pictures to enlarge
                 
                   BEFORE ( How Beirut looks now )
AFTER ( Computer Simulation of how will Beirut look after ) 
Related Link and Picture Source : 
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/09/world/meast/beirut-wonder-forest/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Related Link :
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/urban-farming/?source=link_fb20120628env-urbanfarming&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20120628env-urbanfarming&utm_campaign=Content

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