“Because green skyscrapers and high-rises are a bullshit non-solution to serious systemic problems.”
“But if you want greenery on a building nonetheless, do I have an idea for you – a portable, modular, scalable solution called ‘potted plants on your balcony’.”
So much of this video hinges on the assumption that if you have greenery on buildings, you can’t also have greenery on the ground. Sure, in an ideal world, you can use the fact that greenery on the ground is easier to maintain to guide priorities. In this current less-than-ideal world though, the city owns the road and a private developer owns the building and neither side can really force the other to add greenery.
It’s always about the money. And if you are building a high building chances are you don’t have acres around. And like you say, the solution is not building a dumbass vertical garden, it’s politics. Green the city because you as a citizen should force the city to be good
limited budget – you can pay for structural changes and maintenance costs to put greenery on the building or you can use that same money for a lot more greenery at street level where it benefits a lot more people