Urban Green Roof

Green roofs may provide one solution.

Urban green roof.

Building urban resilience illustrates the processes undertaken to develop this new knowledge and thereby embed a deeper level of understanding in readers illustrative case studies and exemplars are drawn from countries outside of the core researched areas to demonstrate the application of the knowledge more broadly. Anyone who has walked across a scalding parking lot on a hot summer day has felt one effect of an urban heat island. Green roofs can provide both visually and physically accessible green space. Creating low maintenance terrestrial naturalistic green spaces in the urban core is not popular.

Furthermore it is roof level green space that is accessible to the local community. They are particularly cost effective in dense urban areas where land values are high and on large industrial or office buildings where stormwater management costs are likely to be high. Studies have documented that invertebrate communities can live on a variety of green roofs in several countries. Beetles ants bees and spiders are among these invertebrates qin et al 2013 p.

Green roofs are one of the most effective ways to reduce the ambient air temperature in urban areas. One of the additional benefits of urban green roofs for agriculture is that they inevitably enhance urban biodiversity.