Green Rooftops: New Leisure Space

Energy and sustainability, Essay, No Density, Strelka KB, Urban Paradigms

Architecture&nature, City development, CO2 emissions, COVID-19, Crisis, Ecological infrastructure, Economy, Environmental, Essay, Future tendencies, Green roof, Green’s potential, Health crisis, Heat Island Effect, Key issues, Leisure, Moscow, Pedestrian realm, Russia, Social dynamics, Sustainability, Territorial atmospheres, Urban farming, Urban food accessibility, User’s experience, Watery Territory

The COVID-19 pandemic has made green public spaces in cities inaccessible. However, the demand for leisure in nature has not gone anywhere. Greening rooftops could allow us to organize new leisure space while improving the environmental situation, preventing road flooding and reducing the costs of maintaining urban infrastructure. Today, we can begin protecting the megapolis from the crises of the future: a lack of access to green public spaces due to COVID-19, streets flooding during heavy rainfall, the heat island effect, air and water pollution, a lack of green spaces in the city center.