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Promoting an environmental infrastructure for sustainable communities

Edward McMahon is credited as being the founding father of green infrastructure. Here he argues that we have to see green space as a necessity rather than an amenity.

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Green infrastructure

Green infrastructure is the network of green (and blue) elements in and around urban areas. This includes public and private spaces, such as parks, gardens, allotments, cemeteries, trees, green roofs and natural landscape features such as woodland, grassland, moors and wetlands.