20.500.12556/RUL-182916 Integrating blue–green infrastructure into urban spatial planning comparative insights from Ljubljana, Kraków, and Chinese cities Amid rapid urbanisation and the associated environmental challenges, such as increased flood risk, the urban heat island effect, and ecosystem degradation, Blue–Green Infrastructure (BGI) has emerged as a vital sustainable development strategy. Some countries have successfully implemented BGI projects, shaped by their unique geographical conditions, socioeconomic contexts, and governance structures. Although the BGI concept is highly relevant worldwide, strategies for integrating BGI into urban environments vary significantly across regions and countries due to their distinct urban structures and spatial planning systems. This study provides a comparative study of BGI implementation into spatial planning systems of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Kraków (Poland), as Central European cities, and Shanghai and Guangzhou, as Chinese cities. Through a systematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, the study evaluates how different enablers, i.e., (1) guidelines, strategies, and actions, (2) land-use strategy for BGI, and (3) potential of factors for BGI implementation, including planning scale, financial, technical, and spatial, facilitate BGI implementation. This comparative study reveals contrasting yet complementary BGI paradigms, most notably related to top-down versus bottom-up implementation and different prioritisation of BGI functions. These varying paradigms are shaped by specific urban challenges, governance, and spatial planning systems. blue–green infrastructure urban spatial planning sponge city programme stormwater management interview comparative analysis modro-zelena infrastruktura urbanistično načrtovanje program spužvastih mest upravljanje padavinskih voda intevju primerjalna analiza true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-05-28 08:57:42 2026-05-28 08:57:51 2026-05-29 04:37:01 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 19 str. issue 11, [article no.] 1271 Vol. 18 May 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 711.4 2073-4441 10.3390/w18111271 279619331 https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/18/11/1271 1 33c7e355-5a62-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=234570 Yang...-Integrating_blue–green_infrastructure_into_urban_spatial_planning.pdf Yang...-Integrating_blue–green_infrastructure_into_urban_spatial_planning.pdf 1 0F18C9867DD4BFCDAD9FEA438680F546 0e3b6a80f575b45c7b3438775f0c36f2afb91a7fc230d1991febccd84cf67aba 5990f119-5a62-11f1-b0ab-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=234571 Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo 0 0 0