In the face of ongoing climate change, urban public spaces must respond to new adaptation challenges. Implementing environmentally friendly solutions in their design can contribute to increasing the resilience of the urban environment to climate-related threats and improving residents’ quality of life. The aim of this article is to review, identify, and develop a typology of pro-ecological solutions applied in contemporary European public space projects, with particular emphasis on measures related to water management and green infrastructure. The research material consisted of public space projects presented during two editions of the IFLA Europe exhibition. Two main categories of interventions were distinguished: “water” and “greenery”, both related to the development of blue–green infrastructure in cities. The analysis included both Nature-based Solutions (NBS) and interventions incorporating elements of technical infrastructure. The results indicate the growing importance of integrating measures related to water retention, increasing biologically active surfaces, and strengthening ecosystem functions in the process of shaping contemporary urban public spaces.
Forczek-Brataniec et al. (Thu,) studied this question.