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cial media. Similarly, we can also consider governed circulation spaces for example hospitals, schools and offices as also public.

Amongst all the benefits of green roofs, the main topic this dissertation will explore is the direct social, physical and mental impact humans experience from community gardens and roof gardens through a term called biophilia, which is used for the humans’ instinctive tendency to seek connections with nature and living beings3. Furthermore, the exploration into the importance of public common spaces on its users, particularly for the community gardens in Chapter 3, will prove how green open spaces bring the community together through various activities and their love of nature through biophilia.

Stavros Stavrides declares that commoning practices (such as community garden planting) is an intrinsic process producing new interactions between the users. The spaces “encourage creative encounters and negotiations through which forms of sharing are organised and common life takes shape”4, whilst also accepting that the practise of nurturing nature is the epitome for equipping the future generations with a sustainable environment.

We will then envision London, UK in the year 2121 - an Ecotopian society conceptualised as an all-green roof, alternative city encompassing parks, plants and greenery all designed on or mostly on building roofs. This is a new shared society and way of living where communities and wildlife remain undisturbed and biophilia and social relations will continue nevertheless.

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