Bari, Italy
City population: 312579
Duration: 2014 – unknown
Implementation status: Unknown
Scale: Sub-microscale: Street scale (including buildings)
Project area: 2000 m2
Type of area: Residential, Building
Last updated: April 2022

The project started in 2013, when a group of private companies started a collaboration with the municipality of Bari to build a series of gardens on the top of households roofs in the city. With a total extension of 2000 sqm for the experiment, the main goal is to create a small micro-climate. The main advantages of this experiment is an improvement in the process of absorption of rain and to reduce energetic costs for heating. The green roofs are expected to play a role in facing the challenges posed by climate change. (Ref.1.)

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Green areas for water management
  • Sustainable urban drainage systems
  • Nature on buildings (external)
  • Green roofs
  • Balcony greens

Key challenges

  • Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Regeneration, land-use and urban development
  • Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
  • Water management (SDG 6)
  • Flood protection
  • Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
  • Health and well-being (SDG 3)
  • Creation of opportunities for recreation

Focus

Creation of new green areas

Project objectives

The goal of the intervention is to develop knowledge and awareness of the greening projects within the city of Bari. What both the company and the city aim to achieve is the implementation of new green spaces on both public and private buildings, considering at the same time the positive effect that green roofs have on flooding, energy-saving and climate mitigation (Ref.2.) Also one of the goals of the project is to create a small micro-climate. The main advantages of this experiment is an improvement in the process of absorption of rain and to reduce energetic costs for heating. The green roofs are expected to play a role in facing the challenges posed by climate change. (Ref.1.)

Implementation activities

First, the project was presented from the company to the municipality. Once approved, volunteers were asked to offer their roofs for first experimentation. Once the areas of intervention were identified, the first step of the implementation of the project was the collection and use of draining materials where to build the green space. This allowed creating a space exempt from water infiltration, especially in areas subject to flooding. (Ref.2.) Regarding the status of the project: The intervention started in the city of Bari between 2013-2014, but there is no mention of whether it is completed or it is still ongoing.

Climate-focused activities

Climate change adaptation:

  • Increase or improve urban vegetation cover to help reduce outdoor temperature
  • Create or improve outdoor spaces to help people escape from urban heat
  • Implement green walls or roofs to lower indoor temperature and provide insulation

Climate change mitigation:

  • Install vertical or horizontal artificial surfaces that help with carbon storage and cooling
  • Improve carbon sequestration through selection of more adaptable species

Main beneficiaries

  • Local government/Municipality
  • Private sector/Corporate/Company
  • Citizens or community groups

Governance

Management set-up

  • Co-governance with government and non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Local government/municipality
  • Citizens or community group
  • Private sector/corporate actor/company

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Co-planning (e.g. stakeholder workshops, focus groups, participatory mapping)

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

Shagree : private company providing the service of building green roofs City of Bari: promoted the initiative with an announcement for the intervention Citizens of Bari: volunteers offered themselves and their homes to set/up the experiment (Ref.1.)

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Yes (The European Union co/funded the project together with the city of Bari, which intervention in funded and regulated by the Puglia Region program of the ERDF (Ref.5.) )
... a national policy or strategy? Unknown
... a local policy or strategy? Yes (The city of Bari implemented the project together with the European Union, ERDF - Bando Apulian ICT Living Labs programme area (Ref.5.))

Financing

Total cost

€100,000 - €500,000

Source(s) of funding

  • Public local authority budget
  • EU funds

Type of funding

  • Earmarked public budget
  • Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Climate change
  • Lowered local temperature
  • Water management and blue areas
  • Increased protection against flooding
  • Improved stormwater management
  • Green space and habitat
  • Increased green space area

Economic impacts

  • Unknown

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Social justice and cohesion
  • Improved liveability
  • Improved access to urban green space
  • Increased opportunities for social interaction

Type of reported impacts

Expected impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

Ref.1. EulogicGroup (2013). Progetto Shagree – Green Shadows Program. Available at Source link 18-6-2020)

Ref.2. Shargree (2014). Shagree al Green City Energy Med 2013 (website not available in 2020)

Ref.3. Source link (2014). Available at Source link 18-6-2020)

Ref.4. Cantatore vivai (2014). Shagree e i giardini pensili di Bari. Available at Source link 18-6-2020)

Ref.5. Regione Puglia (2013). Supporto alla crescita e sviluppo di PMI. Po FESR Puglia 2007-2013. Bari, Available at Source link (Accessed 18-6-2020)