Green+Roofs



http://www.english-nature.org.uk/pubs/publication/PDF/LivingRoofs.pdf

This report assesses the potential for green roofs to benefit the conservation of biodiversity in urban areas. It considers the huge untapped potential of roofs and the advances being made in roof greening in Germany, where 13.5 million square metres of green roof were installed in 2001.

A brief history provides examples of roof gardens from ancient times, through the Italian Renaissance, on to the garden city movement of the late 19th century and the modernist movement of the 20th century. Classic roof gardens of the 1930s are described and the postwar growth in the green roof industry in Europe. http://www.english-nature.co.uk/news/news_photo/Greenroofs.pdf


 * How about a full on community Roof Garden.

Here is a very successful one in Reading: http://www.risc.org.uk/garden/index.html

this picture was in fact taken 3 floors up and 1 minute's walk from where Reading's inner ring road passes one of Europe's biggest new shopping malls. Before it was a garden it was a simple flat roof! || ||