This course focuses on medium to large scale planting design as green infrastructure and its role in relation to supporting healthy urban environments. Planting design strategies and structures are examined as integral components of urban and suburban landscape systems. Assessment activities focus on developing the skill to describe and assess performance of planting designs across a range of scales and types, including large-scale infrastructure projects, transportation corridors, landscape remediation and regeneration projects, wetland and riparian protection, and initiatives to support landscape resilience and adaptation to climate change.