What is it about?
This study presents the role of an innovative sustainable and ecologically friendly practice on how a five-story plant installation was temporarily placed in the city center of Timisoara with the aim for the city to convey a strong message about urban (bio)diversity as an identifying element of Timișoara and the ecosystem services that it brings to society.
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Why is it important?
This study is important because the plant installation was the most visited attraction in Timisoara in 2023, but it caused divergent opinions among the local communities.
Perspectives
Our findings suggest that the plant installation engendered important critiques on its integration in urban landscape, heritage co-creation and collective care of Timisoara’s heritage sites. We conclude that the cultural and innovative ecosystem practice of temporarily placing the plant installation in the heritage city area has brought both positive and negative consequences: it was a site with increased biodiversity, communities engagement and visibility for the city, but it also not suited to the place of the heritage landscape of the city center. Such urban initiatives could stand as a model for sustainable futures in other cities worldwide.
Dr Remus Cretan
west university of Timisoara
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This page is a summary of: How Communities React to the Urban Innovation Initiative for Sustainable Futures: Evidence from an East-Central European Capital of Culture City, January 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4984709.
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