Slipper green

Slipper green is a term used in infrastructure ( urban development ) and describes a green area in a residential area or the lawn next to the house. The presence of slipper green increases the quality of living and contributes to well-being.

Emergence

The term comes from the fact that you can walk straight out of the house onto the lawn with slippers . It was created around the mid-1970s when the municipal authorities in Essen planned to bring the ratio between built-up and undeveloped areas to a ratio of 50 to 50 (previously 59 to 41). Statistically, every resident should have thirteen square meters of green space, including six square meters within a five-minute residential area.

See also

• Landscape architecture
• Open space (landscape planning)
• Open space planning

Web links

• Slipper green as part of urban planning (PDF; 6.00 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seseke Landscape Park. Goal setting. In : kreis-unna.de. Unna district administration, accessed on October 11, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Slipper green for food . In: Die Zeit , No. 42/1978