Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) offers a feasible and valuable solution for urban areas facing the challenges of climate change. It complements and, in some cases, replaces the need for grey infrastructure. BGI connects urban hydrological functions with vegetation systems in urban landscape design. It provides overall socio-economic benefits that are greater than the sum of its individual components. At the urban diagnostic stage, stakeholders and local residents in the city converged on the view that the plan should focus on future-proofing blue-green infrastructure to build resilience to climate change impacts facing the city. This document is essentially a City Infrastructure Plan for managing an interconnected set of challenges relating to community green/ open spaces, green cover, green networks and water resources management), water supply, water quality, stormwater harvesting and preservation of natural ecosystems in the context of the urban development trajectory of the city and its changing climate.
