There is no doubt that Chicago is now one of America’s talent attracting magnets — a success story of revitalization. From day one, Mayor Daley focused on things like parks and flower baskets and public art throughout the city’ diverse neighborhoods, not just downtown.
Now, as an 8/10/06 Washington Post (sub required) article highlights, Daley is greening Chicago’s great buildings. This builds quality of place and it simultaneously gains attention for the city. It sure caught my eye…
From the piece,
“Daley is an especially big fan of green roofs. The City Hall roof, planted with more than 150 varieties of plants, is often 50 degrees cooler in summer than nearby asphalt roofs, whose temperatures can reach 170 degrees. It also houses beehives.
‘The quality of the building outside affects how you live inside, what you’re breathing,’ Daley said. ‘Anytime you fly into an airport, you see flat roofs. Imagine if every one of those flat roofs had a green roof. What a difference that would make!’”
(posted by Richard)
