Planners model development scenarios and evaluate landscape ordinances. Engineers estimate the impact of tree loss on stormwater management costs. Urban Foresters justify increases in maintenance, planting, and preservation. Educators teach forestry, environmental studies, landscape architecture and city planning. Citizens Groups advocate environmentally friendly solutions.
Developers save money on erosion control and stormwater management.
Regulatory agencies measure the air quality benefits of greenspace. Using CITYgreen, communities are finding constructive solutions to growth and development issues and charting the course to a sustainable future.