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NewBuildingsHandleRoofGardens

Category: Urban Gardens
Responses: 2 (2 in support, 0 neutral, 0 in opposition)
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Build new buildings that can withstand roof top gardens.

Ottawa Community Forum Report, Sep 30 2007

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There's a wonderful video on TEDtalks where Bill McDonough shows conceptual drawings of the green city he's building in China, where all the roofs are green. For a city that is eventually planned to hold as many people as Manhattan. It's quite something to contemplate.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104

mark, Jan 13 2008