Greening Urban Futures – Greening Urban Futures

Our experience of life on Earth is shaped by our environment. As development continues to grow increasingly urban, access to green areas will grow central to human health and quality of life

Today it is well known that cars can occupy up to 70 percent of the street space while being operated only by a fraction of the urban population

Many challenges that would otherwise be hard to meet can best be solved by approaches where nature plays the key role

New Pathways for European Cities and Towns, Bilbao City of Values–Ep.07

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What is a city without values? In this episode of the podcast we speak with Gotzone Sagardui, the Deputy Mayor of the City Bilbao to […]

The Fifth Dimension of Green Roofs–Ideal Futures for Greening the City Core–Ep. 06

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Marja Mesimäki is an environmental sociologist at the University of Helsinki. Her research focuses on issues concerning values, meanings and the experiential dimension of urban green roofs. In […]

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Nature is much more diverse, collaborative and intelligent than we understand today. In contemporary urban living, nature’s beauty and intelligence has been replaced by the economically-driven targets of industrial societies. In fact, we have purposely seek out to break away from nature and it’s environment.

Greening Urban Futures is a living portal and knowledge creation platform to debate on collective challenges concerning life in urban cores. Our aim is to operate as a transformational force for the new wave of 21st century highly urbanised societies enabling learning and the activation of a new state of public awareness and knowledgable communities.

Our experience of life on Earth is shaped by our environment. As development continues to grow increasingly urban, access to green areas will grow central to human health and quality of life

Today it is well known that cars can occupy up to 70 percent of the street space while being operated only by a fraction of the urban population

Many challenges that would otherwise be hard to meet can best be solved by approaches where nature plays the key role

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