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Starting from a PRIN 2015 study, the paper addresses the themes of adding value to public spaces, quality to the urban landscape, redeveloping degraded areas and proposing a sustainable and resilient design approach to cope with the effects of climate change. Specifically, this study focuses on the key role public space can play in urban resilience processes, with the aim of not only providing results in qualitative terms, but also measuring the feedback in environmental and economic terms.Keywords Nature-based solution · Green infrastructure · Public space · Environmental design Climate Change and Urban CrisesThe intense urbanisation processes that have characterised the development of human settlements in recent decades have played a decisive role in the modification of the mankind-environment relationship: cities are in fact one of the most significant sources of impact, with relevant effects in the consumption of natural resources, in polluting emissions and in the overall alteration of natural and climatic balances. It is therefore necessary to start from the cities, from their management and operating models in order to define policies, strategies and concrete action that can guarantee more sustainable forms of development, including from a social and economic point of view. As clearly stressed in a recent publication by the European Political Strategy Centre (2018), the climate change issue, which was perceived as a longterm danger, is instead already showing its impact all over the world, in Europe as well (European Commission 2006). In most of the European Countries, the increase in temperature from the last century is almost of one degree, with a trend that, as a minimum, will soon double the limit of the Paris Agreement signed in 2016. Climaterelated catastrophes-such as floods, storms and droughts-have become more and

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