THEORY
GREEN-BLUE GRIDS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CITIES
Making cities more resilient
GREEN-BLUE GRIDS​
Manual for resilient cities
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H. Pötz
EXPLANATION
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In Green-blue grids: manual for resilient cities, Pötz describes the use of green-blue systems as a tool to improve cities and use them to solve issues that affect the urban environment. Some of these include problems derived from water, urban heat, poor biodiversity and air quality. These issues are becoming a pressing issue in some countries, specially since it is expected they will become worse with climate change. In the face of this, the author suggests to use green-blue grids to integrate these phenomena into the functioning of the city.
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REFLECTION
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While most cities in the world present the issues mentioned above, informal settlements in the Global South are at especially high risk because of the areas
where they are built and the geographical location within the world. By transforming the areas of higher risk of floods, landslides etc. of informal areas seasonal uses we can integrate the problems Pötz is refering into the normal urban life.