Pocket parks are small green spaces accessible to the general public, mainly appearing in cities where there is a lack of larger green areas. These small parks can be found squeezed between buildings, at the ends of closed streets or in the yards of abandoned buildings. They are as big as smaller city plots. These pocket parks have a positive impact on human well-being, providing a favourable microclimate and forming social, ecological, and morphological connections. Pocket parks represent an intriguing solution for neglected corners. They are one of the proposed solutions for creating a small green system that connects all the green infrastructure of Ljubljana. The goal of the thesis is to propose the arrangement of pocket parks in a way that justifies their existence as public green areas and, to some extent, satisfies the need for new green spaces in Ljubljana. Implementing the pocket park system would increase the area of predicted positive impacts for people and the environment by 48 % more than the currently predicted area of positive impacts of existing green areas. The suggested pocket park system would evenly distribute new pocket parks and other additional areas, simultaneously dispersing the region of positive effects across Ljubljana’s entire city centre.
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