Green Structure and Urban Planning - Final Report

The COST Action C11, ‘Green structure and urban planning’, was launched at the beginning of 2000. Fifteen countries were involved in this action and about 40 delegates and experts participated. COST Action C11 belongs to the ‘Urban civil engineering’ domain of the COST programme. The main objective of this action was to address researchers, planners and practitioners about the multitude of roles played by the city’s green structure. In order to progress in its work, COST Action C11 was organised in three working groups: one on the ecological approach of green structure, the second on the ‘human issues’; and a third dealing with the policy aspects. The final seminar was open to ‘key-note speakers’ who could add their own contribution to this report and, to conclude, a kind of synthesis stresses some questions still worth of reflection.