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Community Attitudes Guide: Who’s With Us?

By Greener Spaces Better Places – 2019

Engaging the community is the biggest challenge that councils face in urban greening. This is the...

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Engaging the community is the biggest challenge that councils face in urban greening. This is the ultimate community kit to help with that. Includes: research; free customisable ad kit including posters, social media posts and short videos that can be customised to tell your residents why urban greening improves their lives.

National Stakeholder engagement
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Developer Guide: What’s the Story?

By Greener Spaces Better Places – 2019

Plants and trees. They can make a development amazing, but it’s not as easy as just designing them...

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Plants and trees. They can make a development amazing, but it’s not as easy as just designing them in. All stakeholders need to be brought along on the journey. This guide explores five developments which use green space in a big way, then outlines the stories and narratives used to get various stakeholders across the line.

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Green People are from Mars, Engineers are from Venus

By Greener Spaces Better Places – 2017

This discussion guide explores the working relationship between green space practitioners and...

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This discussion guide explores the working relationship between green space practitioners and engineers, including barriers to collaboration between these two groups, and ways they can be overcome.

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How to Grow an Urban Forest

By Greener Spaces Better Places – 2015

Every urban area needs an urban forest. They’re good for cooling, good for water management and...

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Every urban area needs an urban forest. They’re good for cooling, good for water management and good for exercising, relaxing or reading a book. So how do you create more? Designed for councils, this guide is based on a decade of work by the City of Melbourne. It makes it easy to navigate the process from idea to planting.

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Let’s Grow! Motivating community support for private land urban greening

By Greener Spaces Better Places – 2021

Want to motivate Aussies to green their private property? This report shows you how. Take a deep...

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Want to motivate Aussies to green their private property? This report shows you how. Take a deep dive into different population segments, tap into their needs, and overcome their pain points to get Aussie's greening their homes and gardens.

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