GreenDense How Brest breathed new life into its disused Palaren Road For more than thirty years, Brest’s Palaren Road sat largely forgotten. Once a busy coastal route, it was bypassed when a larger road was built alongside it, leaving this 700-metre stretch of prime re... 3 Aug 2026
GreenDense How Mechelen is turning a paved square into a moving summer garden Over the past few weeks, anyone crossing the Veemarkt will have watched this previously grey square slowly turn green. Through a combination of a temporary "walking forest" and seven larger trees in m... 5 Jul 2026
GreenDense Green Solutions in Dense Cities: Learning Together in Bremen Across Europe, cities are grappling with a shared challenge: how to build greener, more resilient urban environments without sacrificing density or liveability. For many, the answer lies not in sweepi... 2 Jun 2026
GreenDense From Grey to Green Infrastructure: Scaling Nature-Based Solutions Through GreenDense This article was originally published on the Cool Neighbourhoods project website . Cool Neighbourhoods is an Interreg North West Europe project dedicated to reducing heat risks and enhancing community... 21 May 2026
GreenDense Building Greener, More Resilient Cities: Plant & Cité’s Contribution to GreenDense The benefits of green, nature-rich urban centres are well-known: they help cities become more resilient to climate change by offering natural protections from weather phenomena like extreme heat and f... 16 Mar 2026
GreenDense 625 Trees, One Afternoon: Mechelen's Tiny Forest Initiative What if a forgotten corner of a city park could become a dense, biodiverse woodland - planted in a single day, and cared for by the same children who put the first trees in the ground? That’s exactly ... 5 Mar 2026
GreenDense Plante & Cité Promote Urban Renaturation to Landscape Professionals at the Paysalia Trade Show GreenDense aims to bring more green infrastructure into dense urban environments, helping cities become greener, more climate-resilient, and healthier places to live. The project’s knowledge partners ... 18 Dec 2025
GreenDense Dordrecht trials innovative urban greening method: Moving Forest Imagine 150 trees “walking” through the city - moving from square to square, through neighbourhoods and busy streets, spending a month in each place while looking for a permanent home. This has been h... 13 Nov 2025
GreenDense Transforming Brest: Integrating Nature into Urban Living Faced with the challenges of providing high-quality living conditions in increasingly dense cities while tackling climate change, cities across Europe are entering a pivotal moment for urban transform... 30 Sep 2025
GreenDense Climate Adaptation Potential Study Finalised – Now Comes Implementation As part of the GreenDense project our pilot Partner Bremen carried out a comprehensive climate adaptation study for its pilot area of Kattenturm. Kattenturm is a socioeconomically-disadvantaged neighb... 22 Jul 2025
GreenDense Making space for nature with Cork City Council Cities across Europe are grappling with the same question: How do we make space for nature when there’s limited space to spare? From April 2-4, Cork City Council hosted the GreenDense partners to expl... 13 May 2025
GreenDense How residents turn their alley into a green oasis in the inner city of Mechelen In Mechelen the percentage of paved surface is high, approximately 25%. Therefore, the city of Mechelen aims at depaving and greening as much as possible on its public domain and encourages citizens t... 29 Apr 2025