Green and public spaces are the priority of several cities for 2022.
The pandemic of COVID-19 has shown us the importance of hygiene, ventilation and also air quality, and therefore open spaces. Living near green areas is related to mental health, and a lower risk of contagion of coronavirus.
Paris has transformed its Elysian Fields to give them the category of ‘extraordinary garden’, reducing the space for cars in half, converting vehicular lanes into pedestrian or green spaces, and creating tree tunnels to improve air quality.
On the trail is Bangkok, the Thai capital, which is building 11 new parks, including a mangrove eco-park. and a 15-kilometer ecovía (bike and pedestrian walk). In June 2020, the Sky Park, a garden bridge over the Chao Phraya River, opened.
In New York, the Union Square Park it will grow by 33%, with more space for trees and less for cars. It is part of a renovation in which the city will invest $ 100 million. According to the World Economic Fund, 100 million Americans do not have a park within a 10-minute walk of their home.
The city of Nairobi, en Kenya, has doubled its green areas in the nearly two years of the pandemic, inviting people to plant in roundabouts, and saving Michuki National Park, which had been turned into a dump, and is now a walk.
Finally, Barcelona He wants one out of every three streets in the area of the populated Ensanche district to become mini-parks, creating 21 new public squares. It is a great challenge, because it is currently the city with the highest number of cars per square kilometer in Europe, and air pollution causes about 3,500 premature deaths a year there.
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