The Green City                                www.thegreencity.co.uk What are the aims of the Green City? Promoting more, high quality green space has the potential to bring enrichment across business and society. We call this approach the ‘Green City Initiative’ aiming to write green in from the beginning of the planning process and put green space on an equal footing with buildings and infrastructure. Evidence from a very wide range of economic, scientific and social studies supports the view that plants and green space make the difference. The Green City philosophy is based on the concept that plants can bring social, economic and environmental benefits. And more. Plants reach right to the very heart of the matter – plants are key to our sense of well being, our sense of belonging to a place, to being at home. They are an antidote to our increasingly disjointed, and rootless lives.