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As metropolitan spaces face increasing challenges from sea level rise and growing health inequity to environmental contamination and food insecurity, greening is seen as a remedy and a path to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG11 in particular), while bringing nature back to urban areas. In this vein, greening has also become a tool for metropolitan policymakers to increase the attractiveness of long disinvested neighborhoods and municipalities and boost economic growth alongside ecosystem services. In peripheral metropolitan cities, nature-centered interventions can also serve to attract new residents in search of more affordable living space, greater access to both existing and new green space, and new connectivity to urban centers thanks to green corridors. Greening has joined new visions to create a more sustainable urban fabric by integrating nature-based solutions (NBS) and green infrastructure (GI) with concepts such as child-friendly and healthy cities, gender mainstreaming, green jobs and urban resilience