WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 14, 2018
Atmospheric Levels of BTEX and Criteria Pollutants (CO, NO2, O3 and PM2.5) in an Urban Site Located in North Baja California, Mexico: Source Implications and Health Risk
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Abstract: Urbanization causes an enormous impact on the environment which leads to an urban jungle, a concrete chaos, substituting forests and decreasing natural vegetation. An innovating and efficient way of ‘attacking’ issues of urban life, which have been also embraced by other developed countries, is the implementation of Vertical gardens as a Natural Based Solution. Therefore, in this paper, Vertical gardens were analyzed and assessed thoroughly, to acquire a general perspective of their functions, abilities, operations, benefits and risks, impacts and the process behind how they offer a higher quality of living. Furthermore, all of these aspects were analyzed in regard to the city of Limassol, Cyprus. The suggested implementation in Limassol will be conducted, discovering the bare facades within the area and analyzing their quantitative characteristics. The proposal for implementation will be introduced, along with the main design idea, the analysis and the imprinting of the application. This paper pursues to offer alternatives to building designers as well as to the city planners in order to increase the green spaces in to the urban environment.
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Pages: 285-290
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 14, 2018, Art. #30