City Gardens

A new book, City Green: Public Gardens of New York, takes a look at the Big Apple’s most underrated green spaces

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Air pollution is an occupational hazard of the modern world, but plants can do an awful lot to mitigate it. Garden designer Lottie Delamain advises on how best to plant your garden for pollution-absorbing effects

In this London garden, designer Tom Massey has created a series of unfolding garden rooms linked by a manmade stream, which makes its way to the house through a woodland wilderness, a pretty potager and elegant formal areas.

Medellin is becoming the most modern green city and architects are certainly designing having in mind bringing back the green to the entire city, and people are ecstatic about it. The more greenery the better, right?

There's this old abandoned brick school building down the street from me. I have a die hard fantasy of buying it from the city and turning it into a loft. It's probably 3 or 4 stories tall and a block wide. The view... well, I've never been on the roof, but I just know it's amazing. Space Needle, Puget Sound, the works. And I'd make the roof green and lush, such as these beauties designed by Goode Green, the pioneers of the green roof movement. Yeah, I know. Keep dreaming, you say. Oh, I…

Does this sound familiar? A couple buy and remodel a Brooklyn townhouse, then look out through their new floor-to-ceiling windows and, noticing the wreck o

There’s something so beautiful and enticing about a roof garden — a little oasis in the middle of the city, a little spot of green in the midst of the concrete jungle. We’ve rounded up ten enticing examples, from New York to Belgium, to inspire your own plantings, or maybe just your envy. This enormous rooftop terrace in Chelsea features multiple levels of plantings. From Sotheby’s, via Honestly WTF.