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🌱 Elevate your urban experience with green infrastructure! • Urban parks and gardens 🌺 • Eco-friendly water management 🌊 • Community-focused design 🌟 Inspiring cities to grow with nature, not against it. What's your green dream for your city? #UrbanGreening #SustainableLiving #PublicTrust

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Green walls on a school in France just show what a great impact vegetation can have. Green walls - native vegetation on the vertical Visiting this school in Obernai, Alsace in May was a real treat. The green walls are not only stunning but also part of a mitigation strategy for lost urban sp…

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Despite being an effective solution to water pollution, some city residents find bioswales unattractive and messy, as it pulls garbage from the street into the pit, as the New York Times reported. As part of the city’s $1.5 billion investment in green infrastructure, over 3,000 bioswales have been created in parts of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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Green Infrastructure (GI) is based on the principle that ‘protecting and enhancing nature and natural processes […] are consciously integrated into spatial planning and territorial development’. Accordingly, the Green Infrastructure Strategy defines GI as ‘a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services’ in both rural and urban settings (EC, 2013a).

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