Murals and green walls on blank building walls
Identify blank exterior walls facing public spaces and cover them with murals or living green walls to improve the urban landscape, sustainability and biodiversity.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Identify & Beautify "Blind Walls" that face significant public spaces. These are blank exterior former party walls that can be covered with murals, made into living green walls, and generally improved to solve spaces susceptible to bad use.
Who it helps and why
- Transformation and improvement of the urban landscape, and the reactivation of the ground floors with new openings -Sustainability, with the incorporation of thermal insulation to increase comfort and improve the energy performance of buildings, or also the installation of photovoltaic capture or other strategies for generating clean energy. –Biodiversity, with the increase in vertical greenery and the creation of new habitats for protected fauna.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 12, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Human Services
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
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