Paper Title
Balancing Green Space with Terrace Garden

Abstract
In today's urban environment high rise buildings, parking areas, network of roads have acquired major urban land. In such congested environment rooftop and terrace of buildings provide a valuable potential source of outdoor space accessible to users of building. Need of terrace gardens has increased with increasing number of high rise buildings which deprive their occupants of any visual contact with nature. Terrace gardens bring back the missing link between man and nature though on a moderate scale. The factors which make roof gardens important part of architecture throughout the world is:- • Full use of terrace, which is normally a discarded area in crowded cities. Maximum meaningful use of minimum available space. • An economical way of balancing green space with uncontrolled growth of cement structure in urban areas • They provide additional insulation to building. Keywords - Environment, terrace, garden, roof gardens, green space