Parks and gardens are being located in all kinds of peculiar and unsightly abandoned areas of the city.
In the planet's leading single hall, without supports, an artificial resort in Germany is the world's biggest interior waterpark. It was erected inside a 352-foot unused aeroplane hangar, one of the world's largest buildings by volume.
In Manhatton's West Side in New York, a new park has been created on an elevated and abandoned freight railroad line, which has not been used since 1980. The first portion of the park was opened in 2009 and will be approximately 105 miles long once it is finished.
The Spanish group, known as Basurama, turned the remnant of an abandoned electric train project, Lima, Peru, into an overwhelming amusement park for the audacious. Using recycled materials, the group invented a network of swings, climbing walls and even a canopy line.
When space for gardens is at a premium and the country a long way away, forward thinking groups create other avenues to develop gardens.
Hosting a variety of educational garden events and volunteer groups, spearheaded by Annie Novak and Ben Flanner, a 6,000 square foot organic garden has been established on top of a Brooklyn warehouse, in New York. The project is recognized as the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm.
Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco, California, has been cultivated by a group of local residents. They began growing community gardens on unused sections of discarded freeways.
The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 led to the removal of many unsafe elevated roadways, leaving many on-ramps abandoned. The locals chose to turn the unsightly and useless concrete eye-sores into fertile edible community landscapes.
The Nomadic Museum was designed as the transient travelling home of Gregory Colbet