China Building World’s First ‘Forest City’ With One Million Plants

The world’s first ‘Forest City’ is being created to fight pollution.

It is now under construction in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, China.

Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, a team of green developers, the futuristic Forest City will become to a community of 30,000.

Smothered in greenery, of which includes 1 million plants of more than 100 species and 40,000 trees and 57 tons of pollutants, the result will produce approximately 900 tons of oxygen annually.

Stefano Boeri Architetti

Forest City will therefore help to lower the average air temperature, improve local air quality and local biodiversity in the region.

Self-sufficient, Liuzhou Forest City will run on renewable energy sources like geothermal and solar energy.

It will be entirely wired, boasting residential areas, recreational spaces, two schools and a hospital.

Stefano Boeri Architetti

As per their website:

Liuzhou Forest City will host in total 40,000 trees and almost 1 million plants of over 100 species.

The diffusion of plants, not only in the parks and gardens or along the streets, but also over building facades, will allow the energy self-sufficient city to contribute to improve the air quality (absorbing both CO2 and fine dust of 57 tons per year), to decrease the average air temperature, to create noise barriers and to improve the biodiversity of living species, generating the habitat for birds, insects and small animals that inhabit the Liuzhou territory.

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