To have ornamentals is a great way to liven up the place and combat the diminishings of Nature.So we can always grow flowers from the city roof tops
AGRO -URBANIZATION
Normally Urban planning does not leave enough space for farming
How ever we could do a lot already in the streets with trees and around the houses
.Imagine all the lawns becoming food gardens or at least supporting some livestock like goats or geese instead of being used for throwing a Frisbee.
Here we can produce more than enough to feed every body.
Or we would have to plan urban development different from the start,
we can go up
If we ,for example, went onto the roofs
the whole place would have to be part of a general design
Single occupancy house of 3 floors is the ideal hight ,or 3 story apartments ,if all are the same hight and have flat roofs ,a complex farming situation or even nature can be build on top, connecting the roofs with bridges.
William McDonough is an architect who designed a brilliant city underneath the landscape,of just this ,all the rooms get the sun at least once a day ,the city produces its own power recycles its own wastes and utilizes it
The landscape on top produces all the food ,(vegetables and meat )
This is a brilliant example of Agro urbanization.
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It means different construction with concrete roofs at a very gentle slope (for drainage)
damp coursing the concrete with black plastic,
(Although the Aztecs used moss)
Installing irrigation systems.and leaving easy ways up to the roof ,with ramps,for equipment and animals
The walls and reinforced corner pillars must be of sufficient strength to support the extra weight ,as should the cross beams under the roof .
having to support the weight of at least 1/2 of a meter of wet soil
No more than 3 stories is recommended
Have the slope in a Northern direction to make full use of the sun(depending which hemisphere you are in,,and so that you could also incorporate solar panels.
Permaculture has a lot to say about living roofs
as they are very common in desert environments in Australia.
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ANCIENT AND MODERN PERMACULTURE
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Sustainability ,
chinampas were food plots ,build on artificial islands around Mexico city that fed the ancient Aztec culture .
Some 800 survive and are productive to this day ,with a great variety of food,planted in a diverse and compacted way.
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