The International
Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) invites all those with an
interest in greening cities to its next International Green City Conference to
take place in Padova, Italy on 19 September 2018.
This includes city
decision makers, planners, landscape architects and horticulturists.
It is one thing to
build green space into a city masterplan, but it is something altogether
different when the city is already there and the green space is not! Many
cities in Europe need to be made greener, but how do you do this and why does
it matter?
The AIPH International
Green City Conference, ‘New Greening in Old Cities’, will focus on how to
retrofit cities with living green, the plants to use and how this will benefit
the health of citizens and environmental biodiversity.
Speakers will include
landscape expert, Professor Valerio Morabito from Pennsylvania University, USA,
who will talk about how heritage cities in Italy are rising to the challenge of
greening.
Professor Paolo
Semenzato from University of Padova will speak about how green infrastructure
improves the health of citizens. Dr. Maria Yeroyanni from the European
Commission will outline how the EU is supporting city greening and future plans
and Dr. Chiara Catalano from Zurich University of Applied Sciences will
demonstrate how city greening increases urban biodiversity.
AIPH Secretary
General, Tim Briercliffe said: “I am pleased that we can continue our great
programme of Green City conferences with this event in Padova. The line up of
speakers is top quality and this event provides the perfect opportunity to
influence city decision makers to focus more on living green. As an added
benefit for people from the horticulture industry they can include it within a
visit to Flormart and join other aspects of the AIPH Congress as they wish.”
The conference will
take place during the 70th AIPH Annual Congress and within the AIPH-approved
Flormart trade fair. The event is supported by Flormart and the Italian Nursery
Stock Exporters Association (ANVE).
