Urban green space is essential infrastructure, providing the inhabitants of our cities with multiple ecosystem services and benefits. In a municipal context, urban green space includes parks, sports fields, street trees, planted and vegetated median and verge areas, wetlands and nature reserves and cemeteries. Research demonstrating the demand for more urban green space is extensive and convincing; however, studies examining the challenges of supplying urban green space have thus far been scant.
Despite the values and benefits of urban green space, land-use planning legislation often requires local government to prepare policy and plans with a continued focus solely on parks for urban green space provision. In Queensland, for example, this occurs through the development of a Priority Infrastructure Plan for parks,
