Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls - Rilegato

Kingsbury, Noel

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 088192640X ISBN 13: 9780881926408

Casa editrice: Timber Press, 2004

Riassunto

The authors outline the benefits of green roofs and walls, such as reduced maintenance and environmental improvements, as well as providing practical techniques to make planting on roofs and walls a reality.

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L'autore

Noel Kingsbury is associated with the Landscape Department at the University of Sheffield.

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Green roofs and living walls are beneficial to the environment and enhance our surroundings, so their growing presence in our towns and cities is a reason for celebration. Behind every new implementation is a fast-moving technology that has precipitated the need for this fully updated edition of Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls in which Nigel Dunnett and Noel Kingsbury reveal the very latest techniques, materials, and plants, and showcase some spectacular new case studies.

Planting on roofs and walls began in Europe, but it is now becoming popular all over the world as people become aware of its value in reducing pollution and run-off, insulating buildings and minimizing their maintenance needs, contributing to biodiversity, and providing food and habitats for wildlife. In Green Roofs and Living Walls the authors describe and illustrate the practical techniques required to design, implement and maintain a green roof or wall to the highest professional standards. Every detail is provided including the ways in which roofs may be modified to bear the weight of vegetation, the different options for drainage layers and growing media, and lists of plants suitable for different climates and environments.

This informative, up-to-the-minute reference will captivate professionals with its illuminating new findings, and encourage gardeners everywhere to consider the enormous benefits to be gained from planting on their roofs and walls.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Timber Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 088192640X
• ISBN 13: 9780881926408
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile