Challenges for Implementing Blue-Green Measures in the Transformation of Peri-Urban Streets

The PeriSponge project is a three-year research project with an implemented prototype in Feldbach, a small town in the south of Austria. PeriSponge aims to improve potential hydrological retention areas and flood capacities along transport areas through well-designed, multifunctional and multicoded open spaces, while providing water management and quality of life solutions to improve climatic, ecological and social functions for quality sustainable peri-urban areas. The analytically applied research is being evaluated and will be made transferable to other cities. At this point, the project is at the end of the first project year.