Green spaces do the job in a dense city

Anyone who has travelled around Gothenburg and Chalmers may have noticed the green boxes. They record the wildlife in the city. All other sounds are filtered out. Ahmed Eldesoky, a postdoctoral researcher in urban planning, is part of the team conducting the study.

Podcast. In dense cities, people are more stressed than in sparse ones. But small green spaces are enough to slow down the pulse, provided they are numerous and have a certain biological diversity. Healthy green spaces are also a cost-effective way to tackle climate change.

In the podcast Verapodden, you will meet Ahmed Eldesoky, postdoc in Urban Planning, and Meta Berghauser Pont, Professor of Urban Morphology and Urban Planning, who believe that it is possible to combine the dense with the green if you dare to think in new ways.

Read more about the episode on our Swedish page.
The interview with Ahmed Eldesoky is in English, the interview with Meta Berghauser Pont is in Swedish.

About Verapodden

In Chalmers Verapodd you will hear personal conversations with researchers, students, teachers and alumni. What are their experiences, driving forces and visions? What becomes of the knowledge from Chalmers?

Project manager: Cecilia Hillman & Maria Saline, Genie
Original music by Stefan Karlsson
Programme manager, technology & editing: Malin Avenius
Producer: Anne-Christine Nordin.

Vera Sandberg became Sweden's first female engineer in 1917. She studied as the only woman among 500 men. Today, Chalmers University of Technology is home to 10 500 students and a third of them are women.

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