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Water and greenery have always accompanied cities. Initially, their role was purely utilitarian, while over time, during the modern period, they started toВ—in conjunction with buildings and the open public spaces of representative squares and streetsВ—build the urban composition of many European cities. During the period of the nineteenth-century excessive densification of urban tissue linked with the sudden increase in industrial production and the influx of people into cities, greenery and polluted water practi...