Green roofs and rooftop gardens
This volume introduces green roofs or living roofs, a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. Green roofs can serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, crea...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden,
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| Series: | Brooklyn Botanic Garden guides for a greener planet ;
handbook #198 |
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Table of Contents:
- Greening the fifth façade / Beth Hanson
- Green roofs past, present, and future / Linda S. Velazquez
- Benefits of green roofs / Beth Hanson
- Green roof and living wall trends / Linda S. Valazquez with Haven Kiers
- A green roof glossary / Tracey Faireland
- Transforming the Big Apple / Beth Hanson
- Cook + Fox Architects
- Brooklyn Heights Carriage House
- Con Edison Training Center
- Brooklyn Grange
- Lincoln Center's illumination lawn
- Bronx Design and Construction Academy
- West Village Loft
- The Brook
- Five Borough Administration Building
- The Solaire
- USPS Morgan Distribution Center
- Regis High School
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center
- The nuts and bolts of construction / Yessica Mariñez
- Green roof horticulture / Edmund C. Snodgrass
- Going native? / Edward Toth and Matthew I. Palmer
- Rooftop container gardening / Meredith Ford
- Bringing a green roof to your school / Elizabeth Peters.
