CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Majumdar, Rituparna |
|---|---|
| Title | Green walls for sustainability: Challenges and opportunities for urban infrastructure development |
| Summary | Increasing urbanization spurs a unique set of issues to the human being and their surrounding environment. Urban development attracts more population which creates congested cities with unsustainable land-use strategies. A balanced relation between the urban architecture and the natural environment is the key to sustainable city development (S. M. Sheweka and Mohamed 2012). In the quest of the exact solution, researchers developed the concept of green infrastructure (GI). One of the attractive features of the GI is its multifunctionality which provides benefits in several dimensions including the environmental, social, and economic (European Commission 2012). Among many GIs, green walls (GW) have gained the attention of the city planners and the stakeholders in recent years as a very attractive way of sustainable urban designing. Because of its vertical structure, GWs bring added advantage in congested city greening. Instead of being widely known and appreciated for its benefits, GWs development faces many challenges and remains slow in most of the European countries. This study aims to find out the challenges and potential opportunities for GW development. For a detailed analysis, this research investigates GW development in Geneva, Switzerland as a case study. This allows the research to do an extensive analysis of the GW development and plays as a trade-off game between an in-depth study in a city versus the wider study in the European scale. The findings highlighted the lack of targeted policy and limited knowledge among the citizens as the major challenge and propose policy reforms focusing on GW development. |
| Supervisor | Pinter Laszlo |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/majumdar_rituparna.pdf |
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