For several years, Warsaw has been working to reduce so-called heat islands, i.e. concreted places that heat up as a result of high insolation, making it difficult to function in the city. In recent years, many such places have disappeared in the capital. This year, the capital’s City Hall is continuing this type of action and is ensuring that 1,500 square metres of concrete will disappear later this year, to be replaced by greenery.
1,500 – that is how many square metres of concrete the capital’s Greenery Management Board intends to remove from the city’s space this year. The first works have already started in Praga-Północ. And this is only a part of Warsaw’s investments in which impervious surfaces are being replaced with vegetation.
Warsaw. Where will the concrete disappear from?
This year, the city’s gardeners will carry out further projects from the civic budget in the area of flattening. Thanks to them, there will be more greenery in 6 of the capital’s districts:
- in Praga-Północ: in Wileński Square, at ul: Dąbrowszczaków, Namysłowska, Ratuszowa and the corner of Wileńska and Inżynierska streets;
- in Praga-Południe: at the intersections of ul. Grochowska with Podskarbinska, Międzyborska and Terespolska streets, at the intersection of ul. Międzyborska with Turbinowa street and at ul. Międzyborska itself;
- in Żoliborz: at the entrance to the Marymont metro station;
- in Mokotów: at the intersections of J. Dąbrowskiego street with Wiśniowa and Kazimierzowska streets, Sandomierska street with Madalińskiego street, and on Puławska street in the Dąbrowskiego-Różana section;
- in Ursynów: at the intersections of ul Gandhi with ul Dereniowa and ul Stryjeńskich with ul Belgradzka
- in Ochota: at ul. Białobrzeska 26.
The first works in Wileński Square are already underway. The Greenery Management Board will plant flowerbeds there with roses, Japanese tulips and perennials. There will also be 10 trees – small-fruited pear trees and maple-leaf plane trees.
Last year, the municipal units removed as much as 31,000 sq m of concrete and replaced it with greenery. Some 4,500 sq m of these areas disappeared as part of the tasks carried out by the municipal gardeners.
Less concrete, more greenery
The Warsaw Greenery Management Board is just one of the city’s units involved in de-concretisation. Therefore, many more similar investments can be seen in the city. Among them are changes at Bankowy Square and at the back of the Museum of Independence. In the first of these places, in the south-west corner of the square, the roadworkers have scraped concrete and planted trees and shrubs. They have also prepared areas for greenery in the roadway dividing strip. In the second location, a rain garden has recently appeared in the place of a disused car park. Concrete has also disappeared on Koszykowa Street – between Chałubińskiego and Lindley Street. Shrubs and perennials can now be seen along this stretch.
The reduction of impermeable surfaces in favour of greenery will also be visible in Wilson Square(read more HERE) and in the square in front of the Warsaw Architecture Pavilion Zodiak(read about the reconstruction in front of Zodiak HERE).
source: UM Warszawa / https://um.warszawa.pl/
photos: Urban Greenery Management / https://zzw.waw.pl/
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