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Green Network Planning at UBC

University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

This Report summarizes student projects from LARC444/553 Fall 2023 and is in collaboration with members of the SEEDS Sustainability Program, Campus and Community Planning Department and LARC 444/ 553 teaching team, Cynthia Girling and Keunhyun Park. The course Green Network Planning introduces a comprehensive, landscape based approach to long-range planning of the greenspaces of cities to enhance both ecosystem and human purposes. Green Networks are an interconnected network of green patches and corridors incorporating parks, natural areas, remnant green spaces, streets and other vegetated spaces of the city. This course investigates a proactive, long-term planning approach enabling these green networks to be considered in conjunction with growth and development planning. This report summarises the core concepts and inter-relationships between green networks, parks, urban forestry, green infrastructure and active mobility on campus. The campus and immediate surroundings were divided into 7 study areas (see fig. 3) and teams of students were assigned to one of the study areas. Through foundational policy context the students generated creative solutions to urban greenspace challenges. These findings can be summarised as: • Enhancing the quality and ecological value of greenways • Habitat protection, by enhancing the resilience of green space to climate change • Improve water quality, by actively manage green and blue systems • Increase connectivity and implement sustainable transportation modes by creating buffered bike lanes • Help increase Musqueam presence on campus • Increase native plantings to uphold and resstore ecosystems • reinforce habitat connectivity by facilitating the movement of pollinators between fragmented areas. • Increase accessible, safe and well lit streets. • Increase educational nodes for students and public. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

Report

eng

2024-07-30

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88778

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/