CURB Seminar: Only Connect: From Green Spaces to Green Infrastructure

In recent decades public policy on urban green spaces has mutated from typologies of distinct and inviolable spaces to the more ecological principle of connected networks: hence ‘green infrastructure’.  In his talk, writer and public policy analyst Ken Worpole will briefly chart the key moments in this mutation - which was done not only for ecological reasons but for budgetary and management reasons too - and weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of moving from a world of clear typologies of green space to one of boundary-less networks.  He will also say why he loves parks and other urban green spaces so much and why we must defend them against so-called austerity economics!