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Press | Rhie | Swartwood | Zilberdik

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Nature Working to Enhance the City Developing the city by reachingecological and economic balance.

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Press | Rhie | Swartwood | Zilberdik

An UrbAn IslAnd

A nAtUrAl network

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Existing

Future Amenity/Node

Small Node

Medium Node

Watershed Line Stream

Existing Flora

Agriculture

Existing ParkexIstIngCondItIons

strAtegy

UnIfyIng tACtICs

+

Productive LandscaPes eco-industriaL cooPerative

connecting Productive LandscaPes

integrating nature and technoLogy

Bridging exterior Barriers

UsIng nAtUre As A tool:LANDSCAPING xeriscaPe

Lawns

estaBLish gardens in vacant Lots

shade streets and Pathways with trees

UsIng nAtUre As A tool:WATER dayLight

stream

caPture rainwater

infiLtrate stormwater

UsIng nAtUre As A tool:ENERGY activate

BuiLding roofs

soLar shade trees

israeL’s first eco-industriaL cooPerative

INTEL

HP

SUGAT

HITACHI

MOSHAVIM

CORE

CITY

SOLAR

FARM

SOLID WASTE

ELECTRICITY

WATER

BIOFUEL

WASTE FIBERS

SCRAP METAL

RESOURCE

RECOVERY

CENTER

Kiryat gat eco-industriaL cooPerative

A TREE foREvERY fAmILY

• an annuaL tradition of community stewardshiP• an urBan twist on tu Bishvat• strengthen Bonds across generations and cuLtures• reBrand Kiryat gat as israeL’s city of trees

KIRYAT GAT ToDAY

KIRYAT GAT TomoRRoW