Urban Green Roof

Creating low maintenance terrestrial naturalistic green spaces in the urban core is not popular.

Urban green roof.

Furthermore it is roof level green space that is accessible to the local community. Anyone who has walked across a scalding parking lot on a hot summer day has felt one effect of an urban heat island. On a wider scale green roofs improve air quality and help reduce the urban heat island effect a condition in which city and suburban developments absorb and trap heat. They are particularly cost effective in dense urban areas where land values are high and on large industrial or office buildings where stormwater management costs are likely to be high.

Studies have documented that invertebrate communities can live on a variety of green roofs in several countries. Building urban resilience illustrates the processes undertaken to develop this new knowledge and thereby embed a deeper level of understanding in readers illustrative case studies and exemplars are drawn from countries outside of the core researched areas to demonstrate the application of the knowledge more broadly. Green roofs may provide one solution. Green roofs are covered with growing media and vegetation that enable rainfall infiltration and evapotranspiration of stored water.

Green roofs can provide both visually and physically accessible green space. Beetles ants bees and spiders are among these invertebrates qin et al 2013 p.