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Cities' Answer to Sprawl? Go Wild.

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Bloomberg

Publication Date
2021-10-22

In a neighborhood of right-angled stone, stucco and brick buildings not far from Milan’s central train station, two thin towers stand out. Green and shaggy-edged, they look like they’re made of trees. In fact, they’re merely covered in trees — hundreds of them, growing up from the towers’ staggered balconies, along with 11,000 perennial and covering plants, and roughly 5,000 shrubs.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-22/urban-rewilding-aids-biodiversity-climate-resilience