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Busan City is promoting the ‘Rooftop Garden Creation Support Project’ to establish gardens on rooftops, which remain as urban spaces, in order to realize a carbon-neutral city and enhance the city’s scenic views.

Busan City Hall Rooftop Garden.

Rooftop gardens not only absorb and adsorb fine dust to purify urban air and improve the urban microclimate to prevent heat island effects, but also reduce aging of walls caused by acid rain and ultraviolet rays, thereby enhancing the durability of buildings.

The microclimate refers to the climate of the atmospheric layer directly in contact with the ground, usually observed at a height of 1.5 meters above the ground, which is closely related to human life.

Additionally, the green areas created in rooftop gardens can reduce temperatures by up to 15℃ on the rooftop and by 2 to 2.4℃ inside the lower floors, helping to save energy used for heating and cooling buildings and contributing to the realization of a carbon-neutral city.

The target sites for this rooftop garden creation support project include ▲public facility buildings, ▲buildings that can be used as experiential learning centers such as daycare centers and kindergartens, ▲multi-use facilities with high public utility such as hospitals, welfare, and cultural facilities, and ▲commercial and office buildings where citizens have free access and the ripple effect of rooftop gardens is high. The size of the rooftop garden to be created must be at least 100㎡, and after passing Busan City’s site eligibility review and being selected as a final target site, up to 50% of the creation cost can be supported.

Applications for the rooftop garden creation support project are accepted until the 31st at the green space departments of the respective district and county offices, where applicants can also receive guidance on the support conditions and project procedures.

Busan City Hall Rooftop Garden.

Lee Geun-hee, Director of the Environmental Policy Office of the city, stated, “Our city will continuously expand ‘rooftop gardens’ that respond to the rapidly changing climate crisis, realize a carbon-neutral city, and create beautiful urban scenic views.”

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