Why greening cities should be a pillar of climate action

In the Autumn edition of Living Architecture Monitor (LAM), our managing director Luigi Petito reflects on how interweaving green infrastructure with the built environment allows to tackle human-induced warming and improve the management of water runoffs in cities. Luigi heads the EU Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network.

The full article is available here.

The LAM magazine is a quarterly publication first published in 1998.  It features in-depth interviews with leaders in the green building movement, opinions, research, and green roof and wall project profiles. Living architecture is the integration of living, organic systems with non-living, inorganic systems in, on, or around buildings. Living architecture is an important step to reconcile people and nature in the modern built environment.

In January 2020 we were asked to set up and run the European Chapter of the World Green Infrastructure Network. Another exciting task to improve the quality of urban areas and help cities to reconnect with nature.