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With a post-pandemic future on the minds of many Canadians particularly as several provinces, including Yukon, Ontario and Quebec, announce plans to reopen sustainable design professor Lloyd Alter says how we approach design and architecture could look different in the future.
Op-Ed: Was Media Right About Elon Musk s Las Vegas Boring Loop?
Apr 19, 2021 1m ago ++ It seems much of the media is unimpressed with The Boring Company s Las Vegas tunneling project.
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Posted on EVANNEX on April 19, 2021 by Charles Morris
Elon Musk’s Boring Company recently opened its first tunnel, the Convention Center Loop in Las Vegas, for a sneak preview to selected members of the media (the official opening will be at the fascinating World of Concrete convention in June).
Japan introduces urban vegetable gardens in train stations. Courtesy of popupcity.net
Such projects are examples of how to cultivate different plant species for human consumption or not in other ways than growing directly on the ground. Although vertical greenery can assume different configurations depending on the structure, the species, and the context in which it is inserted, all these solutions have in common the optimization of open green spaces even though occupying as little horizontal space as possible. In this sense, the impacts of plants on cities, which are already widely acknowledged, take on a new dimension through verticality. These alternative cultivation methods are used to reduce heat islands, increase biodiversity, promote food security, improve air quality, reduce CO2 emissions, among many other positive effects.