Summary
Urban Green Blue Grids for Resilient Cities is a platform highlighting the importance of parks and green areas in cities. It also highlights challenges brought on by climate change and possible measures that can serve as solutions in adaptation efforts. Possible issues that could arise have been categorised into 7 themes including water challenges, desiccation, biodiversity, urban agriculture and heat. An important point is that measures designed to address challenges in one area often have positive effects on other areas as well. As a consequence, it pays off to address all themes in one go during a redevelopment. The page also includes a database of around 170 measures that can be implemented to tackle the upcoming challenges. These measures are searchable in a database based on various variables such as themes, goals, scale, cost or soil type.
Host organisation: Atelier Groenblauw
Launch date: 2012
Update status: Ongoing
Funding: Creative Industries Fund, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu, Stowa, Interreg – 2 Seas Mers Zeeën, SPONGE2020
Team: Atelier Groenblauw
Main functions
- Introductory information on the importance of urban green and blue
- Searchable database with urban green and blue measures cross-linked to projects where they were employed
- Searchable collection of projects that employ green and blue measures
- Tips on engaging with stakeholders
- Searchable collection of methods for possible engagement with stakeholders
Intended audiences:
City officials, municipal governments, community builders, designers, students
Why the platform was established
The platform was established to promote green-blue solutions in urban areas and to share advice on how to tackle upcoming issues in climate change with changing environmental and climatic conditions.
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