The guide brings together five pieces of research:

*Anational community attitudes survey of 1,684 people;

*Anaudit of 120 council greening strategies to understand the words andbenefits they use to describe urban greening;  

*Conversations with 15 councils of different sizes and locations to understand what works in engaging community;

*Ascan of 60+ articles looking at how media talks about green space;

*A survey of 246 people working in top tier developer organisations to understand how they talk about green space