New York’s low line underground park above leads with ideas to green subways

Orla Huq

Green Cities:

(Green Role Models: Melbourne Australia, Copenhagen Denmark)

People need to be housed close enough to work and entertainment to eliminate need for cars

• Design bike, landscaping and pedestrian friendly streets

  

   

• Pedestrianize where possible inner city

• Provide public transportation relying on clean technologies, electric buses and green electric railways

   

 

 

• Green and reclaim abandoned urban space

Highline NY, NY

Cheonggyecheon Public Park In Seoul

• Urban farming to feed the anticipated 9 billion by 2050

Rooftop farm

Vertical Farm

• Sustainable water management

Copenhagen park designed to become pond during storms allowing storm water to percolate back into the ground

Use permeable paving to store storm water and percolate to ground rather than expensive stormwater infrastructure carrying pollutants to Bay or Ocean

image courtesy City of Chicago Ill.

Planting areas adjacent streets with Trees to absorb runoff and filter pollutants

image courtesy Soil Retention products

Permeable parking to restore groundwater reserves

Flood prevention

Underground parking allowing for green parkland above. Parking area to be closed prior to major storm event to transform to floodwater storage basin for emergency flood capacity to drain later to ground water

image courtesy Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building Modernization

Rainwater collection and reuse systems

• Waste management

  Recycle old buildings when replacing

  Renovate energy systems of buildings to remain

   

• Waste Management: Manufacturers, users and Policy makers collaborate to create Zero Waste Economy

 

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy transition

 

• Planned green spaces, parks, green rooftop spaces, street trees and plants

  

  

• by the numbers:

Orla Huq