Resources

The Community Design Collaborative, in partnership with the Philadelphia Water Department, has created a design guide with information on greening schoolyards. In addition, this article from Next City describes how they have partnered to redesign city schoolyards into eco-friendly learning areas—which also happen to play an active role in the city's stormwater management.

This guide assesses the economic benefits of green infrastructure in order to help decision-makers evaluate water management options in their communities.

This study explores the technologies and political issues involved in using green infrastructure, in order to highlight the successes and challenges of water-smart parks in urban areas.

This guide shows spatial analysts how to incorporate green infrastructure into a GIS work plan and rank and prioritize green infrastructure for their study areas. It focuses on planning for flood related impacts of coastal hazards and provides access to examples, process guidance, case studies and templates.

This manual by Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program is a tool for planning and design professionals looking to retrofit green infrastructure practices into existing development. 2016.