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To end poverty, secure prosperity, and protect the environment while combating climate change and striving to preserve our oceans and forests, 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set in 2015 with the objective of achieving them by 2030 across both developing and developed countries.   Urban green space is a very successful sustainable technology that supports the most crucial SDGs, such as human health and wellness, life on land, tackling climate change, and creating sustainable cities and communities. Historically, greenspace has been used as two words, green and space, where the adjective green describes the space. For example, in a paper concerning trees mitigating air pollution, green space is defined as “land covered with some form of vegetation” (Warren, 1973). People are moving from rural to urban locations around the world in quest of better employment prospects, resources, and a more modernized lifestyle. Between 2000 and 2050, this stark demographic cha...