Green infrastructure is a powerful nature-based tool for enhancing resilience to climate hazards and delivering value. It minimizes flooding and polluted stormwater runoff by allowing plants, soils, and natural systems to absorb, collect, and treat rain where it falls. Whether integrated into single-family neighborhoods or developed in urban areas, it comes in a range of forms, providing key environmental, economic, and social benefits to communities. Explore how these three projects have incorporated green infrastructure among other resilient strategies to protect their neighborhoods from extreme weather, enhance biodiversity, and build value. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/eBxeb6kD Alys Beach, Khoury Vogt Architects, DPZ CoDESIGN, Kitson & Partners, Alex Wilson, Clean Lake Union, HessCallahanGrey Group, Weber Thompson, KPFF Consulting Engineers
We should start thinking more about #GreenInfrastructure, as it is a great way to adapt to #ClimateChange. Thanks for sharing your work, Urban Land Institute!
I hope that the mindset of proactively developing resilience continues to gain momentum. Whether you're in an urban area, on the coast, or in the middle of the country, resiliency helps ensure the long-term success of your project.
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1moDevelopments can and should be built in tandem with natural systems. Unfortunately regulations and regulators often have a hard time figuring out how to make it fit in nice boxes and checklists. I've had many projects where natural systems were reduced to mowed swales because surface water storage calcs required simple shapes with consistent volume in future years.