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  Title

  Green roofs and rooftop gardens

  Author

  Hanson, Beth.  

  Publisher:

  Brooklyn Botanic Garden,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  111 p. :

  ISBN:

  9781889538815

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sewell Mill Library.
  

  • 9781889538815
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    Sewell Mill Library	Copies	Material	Location
    A 635.9671 GREEN	1	Book	Adult Non-fiction Collection

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  Green roofs and rooftop gardens
  Hanson, Beth.
  

  Title:

  Green roofs and rooftop gardens / Beth Hanson and Sarah Schmidt, editors.

  Variant title:

  Green roofs & rooftop gardens

  Publication info:

  Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2012.

  Physical description:

  111 p. : col. ill., col. photo. ; 23 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Brooklyn Botanic Garden guides for a greener planet ; handbook #198)

  Contents:

  [1.] Introduction: Greening the fifth facade / Beth Hanson -- [2.] Green roofs past, present, and future / Linda S. Velazquez -- Benefits of green roofs / Beth Hanson -- Green roof and living wall trends / Linda S. Valazquez with Haven Kiers -- [3.] A green roof glossary / Tracey Faireland -- [4.] Transforming the Big Apple / Beth Hanson -- Cook + Fox Architects -- Brooklyn Heights Carriage House -- Con Edison Training Center -- Brooklyn Grange -- Lincoln Center's illumination lawn -- Bronx Design and Construction Academy -- West Village Loft -- The Brook -- Five Borough Administration Building -- The Solaire -- USPS Morgan Distribution Center -- Regis High School -- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center -- [5.] The nuts and bolts of construction / Yessica Marinez -- [6.] Green roof horticulture / Edmund C. Snodgrass -- Going native? / Edward Toth and Matthew I. Palmer -- [7.] Rooftop container gardening / Meredith Ford -- [8.] Bringing a green roof to your school / Elizabeth Peters -- For more information -- Contributors -- Index.

  Summary:

  This volume introduces green roofs or living roofs, a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. Green roofs can serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, and helping to lower urban air temperatures and mitigate the heat island effect. The editors have included profiles of a wide range of green roofs in New York City, including a rooftop farm in Queens, a high school classroom in the Bronx, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Visitor Center. They have also provided a history of how the "green roof technique" evolved and information on construction methods, on selecting, establishing, and caring for the plant species that are best suited for living roofs.

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  SEWELLMILL

  Subject term:

  Green roofs (Gardening)--United States.

  Subject term:

  City planning--Environmental aspects--United States--Case studies.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Hanson, Beth.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Schmidt, Sarah.