Green Dense City: How green spaces and buildings shape sustainable living environments

The Formas-funded project Green Dense City aims to develop a comprehensive educational package to increase understanding of how buildings and green spaces can be used to create healthy, green living environments.

In the ongoing trend of urban densification, it is important to raise awareness of the benefits of integrating greenery and optimizing the design of urban buildings to create healthy and climate-adapted cities.

The project Green Dense City builds on research from the CityAirSim project, which examined how different designs of green spaces and buildings affect air quality and the urban climate. Based on the extensive data from CityAirSim, Green Dense City will develop an interactive visualization tool that allows users to explore and understand the complex relationships between urban design and living environments. Combined with lecture materials, informational texts, and films, we are developing a complete educational package aimed at increasing the understanding of how buildings and green spaces can be used to create healthy, green living environments.

The development of the educational package takes place in close collaboration with practitioners from the public sector and industry to ensure relevance and practical applicability. The project is a collaboration between IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, University West, University of Gothenburg, and Gothenburg Botanical Garden.