The Urban GreenUP External Webinars Series are focused on sharing stories from cities on the implementation of different typologies Nature Based Solutions, counting with the participation of a partner city from the Urban GreenUP Project and an external city which stands out as an international benchmark in the employment of such specific types of solutions.
The 3rd External Webinar focused on Green Parklets, with stories from Izmir and San Francisco. The event is organised in collaboration with the European project GrowGreen.
Programme
15:00 Welcome
Raúl Sanchez, URBAN GreenUP coordinator, CARTIF Technology Center
15:05 GrowGreen Project Presentation
Michelle Oddy, GrowGreen coordinator, Manchester City Council
15:10 Pocket parks of Izmir: Installation of parklets as a part of URBAN GreenUP project
Berna Ataman Oflas, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality
15:30 Parklets: The democratization of public space and the new COVID paradigm
María De Alva and John M. Francis, San Francisco Planning Department
15:50 – 16:15 Discussion and Q&A
