![]() The spaces would provide a way to grow local food, anchor biodiversity, reduce the temperatures of buildings, improve air quality, increase water retention, and give residents a new way to escape the dense urban clusters of modern times. The company, founded by three students from MIT’s master of architecture program, is using timber structures to turn the ubiquitous pitched roofs of Paris into accessible green spaces. That’s what the startup Roofscapes is trying to change. ![]() ![]() But today’s city centers can be a 30-minute drive or more to the vast open greenery that earlier Europeans took for granted. When the historic cities of Europe were built hundreds of years ago, there were open green spaces all around them.
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