Nature Towns and Cities resources and places
Check out the growing library of resources to help greening our urban spaces. Learn about places and projects that have been awarded grants. In Scotland, this includes Fife and North Lanarkshire.
Designing Climate-Resilient Outdoor Spaces with Nature-Based Solutions
The Children & Nature Network have shared this National League of Cites (USA) article. This describes initiatives to support cities to design climate-resilient outdoor spaces and incorporating nature-based programming to mitigate urban heat, enhance biodiversity and strengthen community resilience. This includes opportunities to support nature play for children.
Learning Places Scotland Awards are now open!
The Learning Places Scotland Awards are back, celebrating the outstanding achievements in the planning, design, and delivery of Scotland’s learning environments. Why not showcase your project, team, or initiative and gain well-deserved recognition across the sector? Categories covering all aspects of educational development, so there’s a perfect fit for every contribution to [...]
Healthier Cities and Communities through Public Spaces
Green and open public spaces are essential to fostering the health and well-being of urban areas and their communities. This UN-Habitat resource offers a comprehensive resource for urban planners, local authorities, and municipal governments.
Planning for success with nature spaces
This post on Scottish Pollinators (20 January 2025) shares top tips for planning your nature friendly outdoor space this year. These great ideas apply to your school grounds as well as your garden or shared greenspace.
Climate change could overwhelm our sewers – here’s how green infrastructure could help
Cities need to find new ways to handle rainwater, especially in the face of climate change. This article in The Conversation (17 December 2024) describes how green infrastructure offers a way to tackle this challenge.
Pollinator Map of Scotland
The Pollinator Map of Scotland provides planners, developers and others with a quick and easy way to identify, at Scotland or local authority scale, where there is most scope for improvement or extending habitat for pollinators. This has been shared in the latest newsletter in the series of Planning for [...]
RBGE – Plants with a Purpose
Plants with a Purpose is a partnership approach to researching and demonstrating the impacts of plant choice and location on how urban spaces react to differing weather patterns. Read about how adopting Nature-based Solutions and working with natural processes can help slow and store water in our urban areas.
