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12Oct 2016
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Multi-agency green infrastructure streetscape in Manchester

Steve Chatwin-Grindey, DeepRoot Urban Solutions   City of Trees Manchester (formerly Red Rose Forest) is an environmental charity working to transform Greater Manchester into “a greener, healthier and more satisfying place to live work and invest.” Pete Stringer, Special Projects …

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21Jan 2014
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Why Philadelphia is shifting perspectives on stormwater management

Mark Maimone, CDM Smith Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), also known as sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), is rapidly becoming an accepted, popular way for cities to address stormwater and combined sewer overflow (CSO) control problems. A new, alternative approach to stormwater …

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16Sep 2013
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Greenstreets@Counters Creek – The ultra-urban SuDS challenge!

Celeste Morgan, AECOM   To what extent can SuDS be retrofitted in a high density urban environment? That question has rung out in the industry in response to a number of great examples being forwarded from the UK and abroad …

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15Dec 2012
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Doing the Lambeth walk – delivering greener streets in Lambeth (No. 2)

Paul Shaffer, Associate at CIRIA and susdrain 10 November 2012 was a damp autumnal Saturday afternoon and saw the second stage of the Lambeth Green Streets project kick off. The local church hall in Chatsworth Way was the venue for …

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09Oct 2012
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Doing the Lambeth walk – delivering greener streets in Lambeth

Paul Shaffer, Associate at CIRIA and susdrain   6 October 2012, (a sunny autumnal) Saturday morning saw the first stage of a community engagement process for an exciting and innovative project to bring Green Streets to Lambeth, which in essence …

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08Oct 2012
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Communities and surface water management… is it a no brainer?

Owen Davies, Sustainability Engineer, Lambeth Council   There is a distinct divide between who provides flood defence and who benefits and it is apparent that this divide should or does not need to be questioned it’s a basic formula which …

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