Panchal Vivek Kanubhai

UI4003

Revamping Blue Green Infrastructure For Liveability
Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) offers a feasible and valuable solution for urban areas facing the challenges of climate change. It complements and, in some cases, replaces the need for grey infrastructure. BGI connects urban hydrological functions (blue infrastructure) with vegetation systems (green infrastructure) in urban landscape design. It provides overall socioeconomic benefits that are greater than the sum of its individual components. At the urban diagnostic stage, stakeholders and local residents in the city converged on the view that the plan should focus on future proofing blue-green infrastructure to build resilience to climate change impacts facing the city. This document is essentially a City Infrastructure Plan for managing an interconnected set of challenges relating to community green spaces, green cover, open spaces, green networks and water resources management (surface and ground water), water supply, water quality, storm water harvesting and preservation of natural ecosystems in the context of the urban development trajectory of the city and its changing climate.The city infrastructure plan develops a set of proposals at micro level (village), as well as showing how such a plan could be developed and connected at the macro level (city).