UK Green Infrastructure Planning and Its Inspirations to Construction of Urban and Rural Ecological Network in China

Guided by the concept of green infrastructure, western European countries, represented by Britain, have carried out a series of planning practices and obtained various benefits. Based on the background of ecological network construction in China’s urban and rural areas, this paper studies two planning cases of the green infrastructure network in East London and the green infrastructure network in South Tyneside, their planning backgrounds, target visions, development frameworks, implementation plans, audit evaluations and planning strategies. This paper also summarizes the ideas and methods of green infrastructure planning in the UK, and puts forward the enlightenment of institutionalization and systematization at the policy and bill level, scientization and collaboration at the implementation plan level, and diversification and concretization at the planning strategy level, in a bid to provide useful reference for the construction of ecological network in urban and rural areas in China.