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The rooftop garden mitigates the urban heat island effect by replacing what was a ballasted, black tar roof with green plants. The garden absorbs less heat from the sun than the tar roof, keeping City Hall cooler in summer and requiring less energy for air conditioning.
3 paź 2012 · This map and corresponding dataset provide the location, satellite images and square footage of existing green roofs within the City of Chicago.
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24 mar 2022 · The 20,300 square foot City Hall rooftop garden has over 20,000 herbaceous plants installed as plugs of more than 150 varieties including 100 woody shrubs, 40 vines and 2 trees – a Cockspur Hawthorn and Prairie Crabapple.
City of Chicago Green Roofs. Sustainable Skylines: The benefits of green roofs in urban environments.
Chicago Green Roofs. The City of Chicago's Green Roof dataset and corresponding map provides the location, satellite images, and square footage of existing green roofs within the City of Chicago.
16 lis 2022 · A Garden in the Sky: Chicago’s Green Rooftop Revolution. It’s not uncommon to see Chicago’s rooftops covered in grass. With over 500 green roofs and 13 rooftop farms, the city is one of the greenest in America, reaping the benefits of biodiversity, mitigating rainwater runoff and the urban heat island effect and saving thousands of ...
