In Breda‘s historic centre, the municipality has started to daylight the once buried river Mark and make it navigable again. Beyond being navigable, citizens and local politicians also wanted it a much greener space, but space is scarce in the inner centre, and the quay walls go vertical. With the GreenQuays project, the city tests now an innovative nature-inclusive design of the quay walls. The quays are currently constructed and will be finished by mid-2023. From different project partner’s perspective, this Zoom in looks into:
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What are nature-inclusive quay (NIQ) walls compared to conventional green walls?
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What are the benefits and what are specific challenges and the solutions to build them?
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What are other positive side effects?
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Where and how can the NIQ technology be used beyond GreenQuays?
Watch the Video: Bringing to life Breda’s nature-inclusive quays
About this resource
The Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) is a European Union initiative that provided funding to urban areas across Europe to test new and unproven solutions to urban challenges. The initiative had a total ERDF budget of €372 million for 2014-2020.