Nature is something that is of key importance to our functioning and well-being as humans. However, in the city, this can be a difficult thing to stay in touch with. It is very important that cities take care to keep the environment green and livable for its inhabitants.
This can be done through building public parks and gardens, but it can also be done by building houses that offer much space for green. Building houses in such a way that nature can still be given a chance to live together and along with the humans. In that way the city can stay in harmony with the vegetation and be clean, nice and beautiful.
Private gardens
But of course, if your city council isn’t working hard enough to improve the green in your town, you can take it upon yourself to make your environment more green. This can be done by gardening for yourself in your backyard if you have one for example. Do you think a garden can make you feel better? Make it nice, and put down things like a wooden gazebo. A gazebo with sides that can be covered in plants. This way you will blend the human structures of your garden with the more dynamics of the plants, which will bring the static of human makings together with the nature of our earth.
A relaxed community
You can of course also take it upon yourself as a neighborhood to make your area more green. Set up a volunteering project for example to improve the green in your streets, plant trees and such, clean up the plants that shouldn’t be there. Making the area that you commute in every day, that you have to look at always much better and your life will improve in general. This isn’t something that can be done as an individual and therefore it is important to involve your community in this, because only then you can be truly effective in your work and only then you will be able to actually achieve something of value.
Public parks not enough
Of course most cities will understand the value of public parks and don’t get me wrong they are indeed important. They offer a space to walk around in which is important to have as a shared place of beauty. Such a space, an oasis of green within the ocean of concrete is of vital importance to the livability of a city. However, it shouldn’t be like this. A city should not be an ocean of concrete in the first place, it should be a beautiful coming together of the human made world and the nature that was there in before.
The green should spread in between the buildings like it is a post-apocalyptic movie or video game set, where the green has taken over the world, but of course, in a manner still controlled by the humans. Building green flats for example like you see in more and more places is a very good step towards something like this, in order to create a natural way of living together with nature.