Fostering sustainable urban development: integrating school areas to support the city’s green-blue infrastructure

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Maja Sutkowska
Anna Stefańska
Magdalena Daria Vaverkova
Yasuhiro Matsui


Keywords : green-blue infrastructure, schools, smart city, sustainability
Abstract

The effects of the climate crisis disproportionately affect people living in densely populated urban areas, presenting a major challenge for the 21st century. Urban administrators face a significant challenge in implementing sustainable development goals into practice, especially within the constraints of the current infrastructure. This paper evaluates how school zones – characterised by a significant amount of biologically active areas – are integrated into the city’s infrastructure to support the multiple uses of natural resources that improve urban living standards. A comprehensive analysis of current legislation, a review of the scientific literature, and a case study of selected schoolyards and school campuses, and renovations of these types of sites over the past decade focus on the evolution of school grounds and the formulation of green spaces and green-blue infrastructure. The paper’s conclusions outline the possibilities embedded in the evolution of schoolyards in the pursuit of sustainable development functioning and a list of the potentialities of urban ecological initiatives.

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Sutkowska, M. ., Stefańska, A., Vaverkova, M. D. ., & Matsui, Y. (2024). Fostering sustainable urban development: integrating school areas to support the city’s green-blue infrastructure. Acta Scientiarum Polonorum. Architectura, 23, 12–31. https://doi.org/10.22630/ASPA.2024.23.2
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