Ecological Stepping Stones: Connecting Small Green Spaces

An aerial view at a block scale, showing how fragmented green spaces are connected. The image features green patches of varying sizes scattered across: a small park, several street corner green spaces, the edge of a school playground, green roofs on several buildings, and street tree belts along the roads. These patches, originally isolated, are now connected by several continuous lines—connected tree pit strips along the streets, a planting corridor along a drainage ditch, and a series of small green spaces between rooftops. Thus, for insects and small birds, these patches become a movable network rather than isolated islands. The connecting paths should be visible in the image. Avoid: depicting green spaces as isolated patches, making connecting paths indistinguishable, focusing only on large parks while neglecting small green spaces, or illustrating streets as completely devoid of greenery.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個街區尺度的鳥瞰,呈現破碎綠地如何被串連。畫面中散布著大小不一的綠色斑塊:一座小公園、幾個街角綠地、學校的操場邊、幾棟建築的屋頂綠化、以及沿街的行道樹帶。這些斑塊原本彼此孤立,現在被幾條連續的線串起來——沿街的連通樹穴帶、一條沿著排水溝的植栽廊道、以及屋頂之間的一系列小型綠化。因此對於昆蟲與小型鳥類而言,這些斑塊變成一個可以移動的網絡而不是孤島。畫面上可以看出連接的路徑。避免:把綠地畫成彼此孤立的斑塊、讓連接的路徑無法辨識、只做大型公園忽略小綠地、把街道畫成完全無綠。