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Tag Archives: Green infrastructure
Exploring and photographing green space / green infrastructure Levenshulme #2
Here are few more photographs of my walk through Highfield Country Park at the New Year. Image credits: Sarah Spanton
Exploring and photographing green space / green infrastructure in Levenshulme #1
At the New Year, I spent sometime further exploring my neighbourhood Levenshulme, Manchester – with a walk through Highfield Country Park, a local nature reserve. This is a great example of a green space which volunteer group Friends of Highfield … Continue reading
The social, economic and environmental benefits of Green Infrastructure (GI)
My interest in Green Infrastructure (GI) (see my three previous posts) in an urban context is in the potential to revalue places differently. That this should be a concern from (combined) social, economic and environmental perspectives. The need to revalue … Continue reading
Beauty, form and function: Sheffield and London
Following on from my previous post on the recent TCPA GI conference which had a large number of presentations (around 12), I’m going to focus on the issues and ideas arising from just a few of these. Nigel Dunnett is Professor of Planting Design … Continue reading
What is Green Infrastructure anyway?
This is the first post of several on the subject of Green Infrastructure, as I recently attended TCPA’s (Town and Country Planning Association) conference entitled ‘Small scale, big impact – retrofitting and enhancing green infrastructure’, which has stimulated a thought … Continue reading
