OXYGEN PARK
Significance
Oxygen parks are often termed as “Green lungs for cities” because these parks consists of oxygen releasing plants that too for 24 hours. Oxygen releasing plants are able to switch back and forth between the C3 and C4 cycle depending on the conditions around them.
These parks involve hybrid green landscape technologies, are extremely efficient and permit a sustainable ecosystem to flourish in close vicinity. Ultimately allowing man to economize on energy use and providing a healthier life in cleaner and safer environments.
Benefits
- Selection of perfect combination of oxygen releasing plants can provide natural “lungs” to the urban spaces.
- These concept based largescale parks ensure
- The regulation of citywide microclimate especially in the era of climatic breakdown.
- Activities like intense concretization would not lead to consistent rise in temperature.
- During the rainy season, the rain laden winds find approporiate conduit in trees to channel and spread the rainfall more evenly.
- Climate change
- Oxygen parks by simply offering cleaner oxygenated air may serve as the health centres offering various healthy habit based activities like morning walks, jogs, pranayama and yoga.
- City wise Oxygen parks and gardens can preserve the diversity of flora for its innumerable benefits.
- These parks are surely believed to maintain the levels of oxygen, temperature and pollution.