Nature-based solutions for a green Leuven

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The Dijle flows through Leuven's historic city center and forms the backbone of the green-blue network of nature-based solutions. Photo: ©Vasily Malygin on Unsplash
The Munich Museum Garden on Praterinsel combines natural landscape architecture with a museum experience - a place where city, river and alpine culture meet. Photo: DAV / Markus Lanz
Elementary school on Karl-Marx-Ring in Munich: Modern new building by Auer Weber Architekten - bright clinker brick façade, intricate details and green open spaces characterize the urban learning ensemble. Photo: Aldo Amoretti
Robert Delaunay, Cercles simultanés, 1934 - a major work of dynamic color abstraction, on view in the exhibition Netzwerk Paris. Abstraction-Création 1931-1937 at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck. Photo: Ville de Grenoble / Musée de Grenoble - J.L. Lacroix
Well-placed bicycle racks visibly contribute to order, safety and quality of life in urban areas.

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