Urban Parks in Central Business District
Vegetation is a key element in the continuation of life. It provides clean air, ground cover, and food for living things. Moreover, it plays the role of balancing the earth’s atmospheric temperatures. However, the urbanization of nations brought about depletion in forests as the workforce required more energy and fuel resources to propel its activities. In other places, the presence of arid areas made it hard for its inhabitants to reclaim lost land and improve. In the last one decade, there are concerns raised by different environmental bodies showing their concern towards depleting inhibitive conditions on earth, prompting scientists, and researchers to develop ways of bringing about forestation or vegetation to peri-urban and urban environments (FAO, 2016). The proposed design project will feature the core concepts of creating urban environments while balancing or integrating its buildings with the environments.
The proposed project design is to introduce urban parks within a central business district. It borrows a leaf from the Doha-corniche project established on the coastal strip of Doha beaches (Doha-Corniche, 2016). It will comprise of a small area measuring 1,000 square metres, with several trees, green vegetation and paths that will help people navigate through it. The park will feature new green benches that will help blend with the trees in various strategic ways. Apart from bringing an ambiance to the park, they will help people from different lifestyles to interact and conduct their business in peace and quiet. The park seeks to help people connect with the nature and seek fresh air from the nature. Most urban business districts tend to focus less on providing their workers with leisure time. The park will be a place for people to sit down and enjoy their meals or build better relationship with others.
Despite the focus of the project centering on making a good ambiance for the urban workers, it also aims at expanding the business district and provide opportunities for new businesses. Moreover, people can implement the project in different business districts as well as in new ones.
References
Doha-Corniche. (2016). Retrieved from Symbiosisdesign: http://www.symbiosisdesign.com/projects/doha-corniche#proj-text
FAO. (2016). Guidelines on urban and peri-urban forestry by F.Salbitano, S. Borelli, M. Conigliaro and Y. Chen. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
