Organization: The Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia & Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative

Year of Publication: 2019

Type of green infrastructure: all

Summary: Exposure to green landscape elements benefits human health in many ways. Urban green space is also recognized as an important adaptation response to predicted changes in climate. To maximize the impacts of urban greening on our cities, planners and designers need evidence-based guidance to design and retrofit urban green spaces that maximize co-benefits for both human health and climate resilience.

This report proposes strategies that provide strategic green space retrofits at the neighbourhood and block scale. These strategies represent a hierarchy of functional design concepts that respond to experiential qualities and physical/psychological dimensions of health, and which enhance resilience at a range of social scales from the individual to the neighbourhood.

Link: Climate Resilience And Well-being Through Neighbourhood-scale Green Design-compressed.pdf 4 MB