A new interactive website has been developed for New York
City and its surrounding areas for tracking weeds, er, urban plants. The
Spontaneous Urban Plants website (www.spontaneousurbanplants.org)
contains a gallery user-generated Instagram photographs of weeds that people
have found in the cities. Once they are identified, the website team assigns
the positive and negative ecological services that those species have (such as
wildlife habitat, heat mitigation, medicinal, erosion prevention, etc.). The
website also has an interactive map of where the plants can be found. It seems to
be a great educational tool for letting a community know about the value of
their local ‘weeds’. Set up by the Future Green Studio in Brooklyn, the project
won an Honor Award in Research from the American Society of Landscape
Architects in 2015.
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