Greater urban density is making it harder to preserve, let alone increase, tree cover. It’s vital, then, to demonstrate the full value of green infrastructure for healthy liveable cities.
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Greening cities have a huge impact. The trees go beyond just lowering temperatures. They help decrease the demand for indoor cooling like air-conditioners saving money.
Urban residents are increasingly keen to farm verges, parks, rooftops and backyards, but planning rules sometimes stand in the way.
It is possible to use small spaces such as transport corridors, verges and the edges of sporting grounds for native wildlife habitat restoration, helping to bring biodiversity back into cities.
It seems like a ‘no brainer’ to use urban greening to help cities adapt to increasing heat, but the uptake of green infrastructure, such as trees and vegetated roofs, surfaces and walls, is slow. Why?
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, Macquarie University
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Professor of Ecology, University of Auckland
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Future Cities, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Associate Professor in Planning, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, Division of Building and Real Estate Economics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
