Guides

A few well-kept step-by-step guides for your own urban green: from your starting point through permits, effort and cost to exactly one next step. Deadlines, funding and responsible offices come live from our records and are never written out in the text.

A bare house wall: greening a façade without damage or disputes – guide

The side wall of your building is grey, six metres high, and in July it throws the heat straight into the courtyard. Green, it would be nicer, cooler and quieter. It...

A rented balcony: planting for sun or shade – guide

You rent a flat in a pre-war building in Neukölln and your balcony is two metres twenty wide. Facing south: an oven from eleven in the morning. Facing north: cool and...

A tree outside your front door: planting the tree pit in your neighbourhood – guide

There is a lime tree outside your building, and around its trunk lies a patch of bare soil: the tree pit. In summer it is as hard as concrete, the rest of the year it...

An apartment block with a back courtyard: greening it together – guide

Your courtyard in Berlin is paved, with four bins, two bike racks and a corner nobody ever stands in. Twelve flats look onto it. In August the air stands still. You...

No land of your own: finding or founding a community garden – guide

You want to garden but you have nothing: no plot, no courtyard, only a north-facing balcony. Berlin has more than two hundred community gardens for exactly this – and...

Your own building in Berlin: assessing a green roof – guide

Your building in Berlin has a flat roof: bitumen, gravel, a few vents. In summer the heat stands under the top-floor flats, and in heavy rain everything runs into the...

Your own plot: holding rainwater back instead of draining it – guide

With every heavy shower the water shoots off your roof into the downpipe and out of the city – and four weeks later you are watering with drinking water. In Berlin you...

Your plan is set: finding funding for greening in Berlin – guide

You know what you want – roof, courtyard, façade, rainwater – and now the question: will anyone chip in? Berlin has fewer programmes than the internet suggests, and...

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