Urban green. The potential of city’s residual areas

Abstract

Nowadays, the contemporary cities are evolving at an accelerated pace, aspect that brings forward new sets of problems to be dealt with. Among the most common urban issues we can identify the lack of high quality public spaces, insufficient parking spaces, and the presence of decommissioned (disused) industrial sites that fragment the overall appearance of the residential areas. Regarding the aforementioned issues, this paper will focus on the opportunity to provide potential directions of development for urban landscape through the increasing of green areas. As such, the existing residual urban spaces can provide a solid framework for future opportunities and the increasing of green areas per citizen can be applied for a sustainable urban recovery and reconversion.