Urban green infrastructure

Posts about climate written by Dr Regan Early

Green Infrastructure Archives - Urban Design

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The urban heat island effect poses increasing morbidity and mortality challenges in a warming world. This Review discusses how urban vegetation — specifically, green parks, green roofs and green walls — can be used as a strategy to mitigate heat.

The world-renowned A' Design Award & Competition has opened its Call for Early Submissions to all those who would like to submit their designs in...

Loop NYC was a 2017 plan that proposed transforming New York roadways into public parks. The brief imagines dedicated micro highways around the perimeter of Manhattan populated with self-driving cars in an electric blue. Above the highways would be pedestrian-accessible outdoor green spaces. “Communities would connect in unexpected ways,” EDG founder John Meyer says, “and the city would be a healthier place.”

GreenWorks developed green street schematic design concepts for the City of Sandpoint, Idaho, which will serve as a green street pilot project for the City of Sandpoint. Concepts for these existing streets looked at different options for how to retrofit green infrastructure to work with different ex

This study uses an integrated metropolitan design approach to transform the existing hybrid landscapes of the University District using greenways and green infrastructure as a model for implementing regenerative design strategies that challenge both the architectural approach of conceiving the city the theatre, "big architecture," and the traditional urban planning approach which uses the "master plan" as an instrument for optimizing development.