Green Infrastructure

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About Green Infrastructure

A WORKING DEFINITION
The term "green infrastructure" has been used to describe a vast array of landscape types, from backyard rain gardens to regional open space networks. Fundamentally, green infrastructure is just a framework for recognizing the valuable ecological services that nature can provide for the human environment. At a metropolitan scale, green infrastructure forms a tapestry of open space that serves and guides urban development. At a site scale, green infrastructure connects a place to its bioregional context, integrates functions, and makes life-giving processes visible and meaningful. Regional protected and connected natural habitats are the foundation for this system. Parks, gardens, trails, and other traditional public spaces link communities to this natural landscape matrix. More broadly conceived, a green infrastructure network is a regenerative solution to urban challenges associated with stormwater and waste management, mobility and public health, local food and energy security, and even protection from natural and man-made hazards.

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