Green Madrid Sustainability

Challenge

The Green treasure of Madrid

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The municipality of Madrid covers 604,3 k㎡, it's monocentric metropolitan area is the second largest in Spain.
It's history began in 865 by the Moor Mohamed, who built a fortress called Magrit on the site.

Madrid is the most populated in Spain and the second most popolous in Europe with 3`266`126 inhabitants and a density of 54,03 (inha/Ha).
The city is also rich of parks and green areas, the streets only counts 655`650 trees.

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The Capital is divided in 21 distritos, subdivided into 131 barrios.
The ratio of people to trees for each distrito is shown below, use the select on the map to change distrito.

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Which district is the greenest?

What is the relationship between area (x-axis), population (y-axis) and urban vegetation (bubble radius) for each district?

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Size

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Plants present in urban streets belong to about 75 families.

Which family is present in greater numbers? How many species in each family are present? The select allow to explore every discrict of the city.
Click on the family to discover the species.

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Approximately 86% of the vegetation species on the streets of Madrid belong to 10 of the 75 recorded families.

The map shows the position of the trees belonging to each of the 10 families within the municipal boundaries.

Diameter

Height

Trunk girth

Platanaceae

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Fabaceae

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Pinaceae

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Ulmaceae

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Sapindaceae

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Oleaceae

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Rosaceae

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Cupressaceae

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Cannabaceae

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Salicaceae

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It is scientifically proven that the presence of green areas affects, among other factors, the microclimate (temperature, humidity, wind) and air quality.

To observe the effects of green areas on the microclimate, we use 18 of the city's 26 weather stations, which record, among other things, temperature and humidity.

Temperature (C°)

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Relative Humidity (%)

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Air quality is measured in real time by 24 stations across the municipality, but we use only 18. Meanwhile the ratio of green areas to land area or population is shown on the right, down below it's possible to know the Ozone and PM 2.5 levels.

Ozono (μg/m³)

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PM 2.5 (μg/m³)

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What is citizens ' perception of their city and green areas?
Here are shown a territorial view of on socio-demographic variables affecting citizens, information is shown by districts.