Last updated: October 2021
The Generalunternehmung Losinger Marazzi AG is developing a sustainable city quarter with Greencity, incorporating alley trees, pocket parks, house gardens, and green areas attached to the buildings (Ref 2). The landscape concept contrasts the new concentration of urban housing, services, and businesses with the landscape’s natural geomorphological features. The place is very close to the Sihl river. The river landscape defines western and eastern Manegg which benefit from other characteristic natural features, forests and the grasslands of the Entlisberger embankment. The newly erected, densely built “GreenCity” dovetails with the natural landscape it’s nested in (Ref 1).
Greencity
https://www.vogt-la.com/en/project/green-city-z%C3%BCrich-south
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Grey infrastructure featuring greens
- Alley or street trees and other street vegetation
- Green parking lots
- Parks and urban forests
- Pocket parks/neighbourhood green spaces
Key challenges
- Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
- Climate change mitigation
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Environmental quality
- Air quality improvement
Focus
Creation of new green areas
Project objectives
To serve multiple urban purposes; contributing an additional attraction to the city of Zurich and providing a quiet area for the general public, increasing green space within the city, provide some habitats for local species, local air temperature control, local air pollution control, and aesthetics (Ref 1)
Implementation activities
The area has been divided into plots for the plantation and building construction. New buildings are being constructed with rainwater harvesting facilities, low energy demand facilities, and with more green areas connected. Trees and shrubs have been planted. A pocket park has been created, a pathway to connect to the river Sihl has been created (Ref 2,3)
Climate-focused activities
Climate change mitigation:
- Increase green urban nature for carbon storage (wetlands, tree cover)
- Invest in public transport/bicycle infrastructure as a means to prevent car use
- Raise public awareness of behaviours, lifestyle and cultural changes with mitigation potential
Main beneficiaries
- 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
- Private sector/corporate actor/company
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Co-management/Joint management
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
The area is owned by the city council and the project has been developed by Losinger Marazzi, a real estate development foundation (Ref 2)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a national policy or strategy?
Yes
(Swiss Landscape Concept’ in commissioning new buildings and installations (Ref 3).)
... a local policy or strategy?
Yes
(The “Zurich 2035 strategies” to follow the vision of further developing Zurich into a metropolis with sustainable facilities (Ref 3).)
Financing
Total cost
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
- Public local authority budget
Type of funding
- Unknown
Non-financial contribution
Unknown
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Climate change
- Lowered local temperature
- Environmental quality
- Improved air quality
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
- Increased number of species present
Economic impacts
- Increased property prices
- Attraction of business and investment
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Improved liveability
- Improved access to urban green space
- Health and wellbeing
- Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
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
1. A city in green. Green city- Zurich south, Switzerland. Case studio. VOGT. Available at: Source link. Accessed on 3rd August, 2020.
2. Green City. Stadt-Zurich. Available at: Source link. Accessed on 3rd August, 2020.
3. Green City Project. Available at: Source link. Accessed on 3rd August, 2020.
2. Green City. Stadt-Zurich. Available at: Source link. Accessed on 3rd August, 2020.
3. Green City Project. Available at: Source link. Accessed on 3rd August, 2020.
Greencity
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/hbd/de/index/staedtebau/planung/entwicklungsgebiete/manegg/projekte_geplant/sihlpapier_areal.html