Banxuegang Green Nervous Network

In the past, cities were seen as the counterpoint to nature. On one side an environment that serves us, on the other the one to serves all other species. Nature in the city was only desired for recreational purposes, and only in a domesticated and sanitized version. With cities covering bigger and bigger areas, they have destroyed huge natural ecosystems and continue to do so. Climate change and the loss of biodiversity are the immediate result, and so is an urban lifestyle that has lost touch with nature. We can change that by applying our infrastructural thinking to green as well. We all don’t doubt the need of water, telecommunication and transport networks in our cities. Why don’t we also establish green networks? The Banxuegang park connection plan does exactly that. It re-connects existing green spaces in Shenzhen into a nervous green network that reaches far into neighbourhoods. The result is a vast, continuous ecosystem that proliferates the city and makes it permeable for all kinds of species. Park systems are also a new quality by greatly increasing human access to nature.