A representative example from France is the city of Nantes. The percentage of public and private green spaces and water areas, excluding farming land, over the total surface (6,523 ha), was 40% in 1999 and 41% in 2009. In other figures, it has been calculated a surface of 54,771 ha of public green areas in Nantes Metropolis, which is equivalent to 57 m2 of public green spaces per inhabitant as well as 100% of the inhabitants live at less than 300 m away from a green space. Furthermore it has been reported that from 1999 to 2009 there was a 4% increase of the public and private water areas, while 100 ha were added in the surface of the green areas (European Green Capital Award Nantes, 2010).