"The Green Infrastructure Guide" published by the Regional Planning Partnership, a nonprofit organization based in Princeton, N.J., offers suggestions for protecting a city's green infrastructure.
"Gray infrastructure is what we build: roads, parking lots, utilities and buildings.Green infrastructure is what nature provides: trees and forests, rivers and streams, wetlands and open space... much of the American metropolitan landscape still remains susceptible to development shaped exclusively by antiquated zoning provisions, inflexible gray infrastructure demands and economic forces." [For more information about the Green Infrastructure Guide see www.planningpartners.org/projects/gig/ ]
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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