The Escofet 1886 Green City brochure

From grey to colourful, green places to meet and enjoy

Discover how planters and green islands by Escofet 1886 help green, de-pave and adapt public and semi-public space to climate challenges. 

Be inspired by practical interventions that boost biodiversity, comfort and liveability across streets, squares, campuses and residential areas.

Every city or municipality faces the same questions: how do we mitigate urban heat and cloudbursts, make places more inclusive and attractive, and keep them manageable within existing budgets, service corridors and daily operations. Full-ground planting is not always feasible, projects often need phasing, and maintenance teams require solutions that are durable and easy to look after. That is why greenery should be seen as part of a climate-adaptive public realm, not as decoration.

This is where the Escofet Green City brochure helps. It gives you a practical framework to use greenery as functional infrastructure: planters and green islands as scalable building blocks, with clear principles on geometry, height, water-aware design, sensory quality and maintenance logic. The guide supports context-based choices, shows how to start quickly and scale later, and includes a model overview so you can choose a direction without getting lost in products. Step by step, grey zones become living micro-landscapes that work for people and nature.

Large light-concrete perimeter island with seating edge, layered planting and two trees on a low-traffic street.

From scattered planters to functional micro-landscapes

With thoughtful placement you design micro-landscapes that guide routes, add places to dwell and bring cooling. In this brochure you will discover :

  • Layered planting: how herbaceous layers, perennials, shrubs and trees form a robust, biodiverse structure.
  • Privacy and sightlines: how to use greenery for shelter without blind spots, with clear views and careful lighting. 
  • Topography and water: how subtle relief and simple water paths support micro-climate and plant health.
  • Material choice: why architectural concrete with thermal inertia and long service life is a sound base for healthy root zones.
  • Phased greening: how freestanding placement enables quick, no-break works that can be scaled up later.

Esfera: freestanding greenery that shields terraces and softens space.

Why green infrastructure in planters works

Planters and green islands are scalable building blocks for the climate-adaptive public realm. They enable greening where full-ground is difficult and are phasable: often you can start freestanding without demolition, then extend or anchor later. This delivers visible gains in de-paving, heat-stress reduction and livability without opening up the street profile.

At the same time they combine user comfort with ecological value: shade and shelter, logical seating edges, a sensory experience with colour and texture, and water-aware micro-design that supports plant health. In routing, planters act as green curtains and rooms: they filter views, guide flows and buffer between traffic and dwell space, while discouraging illegal parking where it compromises safety.

This makes public spaces more inclusive and more attractive for a large variety of visitors and target groups. The Green City approach provides a practical framework for geometry and height, positioning and sightlines, lighting, material choice and maintenance, together with a model index to help you select the right families.

Island planters with seating edge and integrated lighting; safe, livable spaces on an evening city square.

What you will find in the Escofet Green City brochure

A clear, inspiring guide for designers, policy makers and maintenance teams, including:

  • Design principles: geometry, height, senses and water translated into concrete interventions.
  • Goal-based compositions: privacy, year-round colour, climbers and dwell quality with reference species as a starting point.
  • Technical model index: families, sizes, volumes and finishes to match choices with maintenance and context.
  • Maintenance & TCO: how to consider inlets, overflows and pruning routes from day one.
  • Cases & references: examples showing impact where full-ground is less feasible.
Escofet 1886 Green City: clear brochure on planters and green islands for designers, policymakers and maintenance teams.

Let yourself be inspired 

Download the Escofet Green City brochure and see how targeted interventions create living urban landscapes that work for people and nature.

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