Green Infrastructure Planning

ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

The Ecological Society of America's Committee on Land Use, April 2000

Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century

By, Mark A. Benedict, Ph.D., Edward T. McMahon, J.D. The Conservation Fund

A Guide to Urban Habitat Conservation Planning

By, Thomas G. Barnes, Extension Wildlife Specialist and Lowell Adams, National Institute for Urban Wildlife

Biodiversity by Design, A guide for sustainable communities

This Guide has been prepared by URBED (the Urban and Economic Development Group), the TCPA and ALGE for the TCPA. Case study material from Berlin was written and illustrated by Neil Corteen. Additional comments and input were provided by Mike Oxford from Association of Local Government Ecologists, English Nature and by Caroline Green of the TCPA.

Plant and Animal Communities in Urban Green Spaces

By, Frank Fitzgerald, Research Fellow ,Design Center for American Urban Landscape, Design Brief, Number 5/ September 2003 This design brief is part of a series entitled Taking Notice: Green Spaces in Urbanized Settings with a focus on the green spaces of center city and inner suburban communities in the Twin Cities region. Titles in this series are: * The Diversity of Green Spaces * Urban Green Space: Effects on Water and Climate * People and Urban Green Areas: Perception and Use * Plant and Animal Communities in Metropolitan Green Spaces * Mapping Green Spaces in the Center of the Twin Cities Region

Greenprinting

Defined by the Trust for Public Land as a smart growth strategy that emphasizes land conservation to ensure quality of life, clean air and water, recreation, and economic health. Useful community process to help delimit desireable wildlife and other conservation lands.