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The sustained development
 
With its green and flowering spaces policy, the City of Soissons has adopted a coherent sustained development policy:
  • Structuring the landscape
    • Showing to advantage the buildings
    • Bringing out architectural and sculptural monuments
    • Giving character to a main thoroughfare
    • Reinforcing the orientation in the city
  • Improving the quality of the environment
    • Cleansing of the air in decreasing the quantity of carbon dioxide produced by the motorists, the heating and the plants
    • Cooling the air down with its steam water
    • Controlling the runoff and keeping the ground in position
    • Getting cooling shadow under the Summer sun
    • Bringing a sound shield along noisy roads
    • Catching dust
    • Colouring with its Spring blossoming
  • Contributing to the locals' life
    • Participating to the identity and quality of the districts
    • Constituting an intermediate scale between the high buildings and the pedestrians
    • Drawing a plant frontier between the different places
    • Improving the quality of life and the peace feeling
    • Attracting new residents
  • Offering an economic value
    • Keeping going up in value properties
    • Attracting companies in search of a high quality of life for their employees (Parc Gouraud)
    • Decreasing the costs of heating and air conditioning



 
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