Innovative Urban Greening: Resilient Floriculture for Future Cities

Urban areas face unprecedented challenges due to climate change, biodiversity loss, and rapid population growth. In this context, floriculture plays a key role in enhancing urban resilience and liveability. Urban floriculture contributes to heat island mitigation, biodiversity enhancement, and improved environmental quality, while also enriching the visual and cultural identity of cities.



This Research Topic aims to explore innovative approaches to urban greening through resilient floriculture, focusing on ornamental plants as a key component of sustainable and livable cities. Contributions may address climate-adaptive ornamental species and their role in urban resilience, technological innovations (IoT, AI, biotechnology) for urban floriculture, and the development of new infrastructures such as vertical gardens, green roofs, and floral corridors. Socio-economic and cultural dimensions of urban greening, interactions with inhabitants, policy frameworks and planning strategies for integrating floriculture in municipalities, as well as the role of greening in circular economy approaches and sustainable ornamental plant utilization, are all within the scope.



This Research Topic (RT) seeks contributions that examine how ornamental plants and floriculture can enhance urban ecosystems by addressing sustainability, aesthetics, and socio-economic benefits. Authors are encouraged to consider green area management practices, including smart irrigation and sensor-based monitoring systems, and to incorporate life-cycle assessment and sustainability metrics for ornamental plants in urban contexts. Submissions that integrate ecological, technological, social, and policy perspectives on resilient urban floriculture are particularly welcome, with the goal of informing both scientific understanding and practical applications for future cities.

Article types and fees

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• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Urban greening, Floriculture, Green infrastructure, Climate-resilient plants, Sustainable cities, Urban biodiversity, Nature-based solutions, Vertical garden, Urban heat island mitigation, Smart landscaping, Smart urban horticulture

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.