botanical considerations for revised landscapes – foliage contributes in dissipating wind force up to 15%

Milano

September 2020

Agronomist Laura Gatti

Vertical Forest

Professor Pier Mannuccio Mannucci

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci The belief that green areas can prevent and cure diseases goes back to the Medieval period, but it was mainly in the United Kingdom during the Victorian and Edwardian ages that this relation was empirically recognized. The cultural context of the time – for instance, the activity of the Common Preservation Society – toward the preservation and accessibility of public parks, addressed already as the of the city, fostered the debate. The first studies to assess the relationship between people’s health and green spaces were based on the observation of psychiatric patients treated in asylums – structures surrounded by lush gardens. It was when the belief that greenery could help the treatment of mental disorders spread, that this approach was extended