LatStudios was commissioned to develop The Green Grid Study. The Study outlines how to increase the quantity, quality and interconnectedness Brisbane's open space. Our work seeks to sustain the city's liveability, preserve natural systems within the city and build in resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Globally, cities recognise the importance of green city strategies in terms of defining city image and creating sustainable urban environments that support community health and provide positive places for people to live and work. Brisbane’s unique balance between urban and natural, fusion of indoor and outdoor is a key celebration of our subtropical climate. It influences daily life and is critical to the city’s image and future liveability.

With projected densification, it is important that the natural systems around Brisbane work in parallel with infrastructure to support the goal of a sustainable Brisbane into the future.

Project benefits
The Green Grid:

• provides the shift in thinking required to move towards sustainable practices in delivering city shaping infrastructure;
• enhances resilience to the impacts of climate change through the repairing of natural systems;
• enhances the 'Green Lungs' of the city with multifunctional open space;
• supports community health through access to a local open space network;
• proposes new river crossings supporting an interconnected mesh of green corridors;
• supports a 30-minute' city structured around active transport through a network of shade-ways; and
• provides the evidence for policy change to rethink an evolving city.