Canopy Cities

Author : Timothy Beatley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003823940

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Canopy Cities by Timothy Beatley Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the essential role of trees and forests in cities and examines the creative approaches cities around the world are taking to protect trees and expand their urban forests. Moving beyond the view that trees are luxuries and therefore non-essential to the life of a city, the book examines urban tree policies and approaches that foster tree protection, including tree codes and bylaws, and calls for greater community engagement to preserve this important facet of urban life. Through an international range of examples and case studies, featuring cities in the United States, Canada, Singapore, the Netherlands, Australia, France, New Zealand, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and the United Kingdom. The book offers best practice examples where trees have been further integrated into the fabric of urban planning and design, including forested towers, interior rainforests, tiny urban forests, and metropolitan forests. Written by a leading authority in the field, this is a fascinating read for researchers, students, and practitioners in urban planning, landscape architecture, and environmental policy and planning.

Author : Michael Hough
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415298555

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Cities and Natural Process by Michael Hough Pdf

An updated and revised discussion of the fundamental conflict in the perception of nature and an expression of the essential need for an environmental view when approaching urban design.

Author : Gary Downton
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781098083939

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Have You Ever Wondered About...? by Gary Downton Pdf

This is book 2 in the Eye-opener Trilogy. In the sequence of God’s design, this book delves into some common things. Also included is the what, why, and where of hell; origins plus sequences of language; some odd subjects; origin of sin; and different types of future physical bodies. More ponder points and prophecies are also included. A funny dog can capture your heart. Sky cities are explained somewhat, and vision is included. Book 3 covers a subject variety along with an eternity timeline chart covering many millions of future years. What will be your place—positive or negative?

Author : Harini Nagendra
Publisher : Viking
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0670091219

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Cities and Canopies by Harini Nagendra Pdf

Native and imported, sacred and ordinary, culinary and floral, favourites of various kings and commoners over the centuries, trees are the most visible signs of nature in cities, fundamentally shaping their identities. Trees are storehouses of the complex origins and histories of city growth, coming as they do from different parts of the world, brought in by various local and colonial rulers. From the tree planted by Sarojini Naidu at Dehradun's clock tower to those planted by Sher Shah Suri and Jahangir on Grand Trunk Road, trees in India have served, above all, as memory keepers. They are our roots: their trunks our pillars, their bark our texture, and their branches our shade. Trees are nature's own museums. Drawing on extensive research, Cities and Canopies is a book about both the specific and the general aspects of these gentle life-giving creatures.

Author : Samuel James Capper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Constance, Lake
ISBN : OXFORD:600016969

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The Shores and Cities of the Boden See by Samuel James Capper Pdf

Author : Akihiro Nakamura,Brett Scheffers,Roger Laurence Kitching,Louise A. Ashton
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832500668

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Understanding Patterns and Mechanisms of Forest Canopy Diversity and Ecosystem Functions in a Changing World by Akihiro Nakamura,Brett Scheffers,Roger Laurence Kitching,Louise A. Ashton Pdf

Author : Liam Matthew Brockey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0754663132

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Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World by Liam Matthew Brockey Pdf

Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World is a collection of essays on the cities of the Portuguese empire written by the leading scholars in the field. The volume, like the empire it analyzes, has a global scope and a chronological span of three centuries. The contributions focus on the social, political, and economic aspects of city life in settlements as far apart as Rio de Janeiro, Mozambique Island, and Nagasaki. As well as sparking further comparisons between cities found within the Portuguese empire, this collection also raises important issues that will be of interest to historians of other European empires, as well as urban historians generally.

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393340518

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The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson Pdf

A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and describes how activities carried out under this canopy can ease racial tensions and promote harmony.

Author : Joseph Adeniran Adedeji
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031346880

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Ecological Urbanism of Yoruba Cities in Nigeria by Joseph Adeniran Adedeji Pdf

This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria. It examines the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) demonstrated for wellbeing through home gardens by this largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria. This is in addition to the ES of Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage Site, Osogbo; Biological Garden and Park, Akure; Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos; Adekunle Fajuyi Park, Ado-Ekiti; Muri Okunola Park, Lagos; and some institutional GI including University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens, Ibadan; Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Botanical Garden, Abeokuta; and University of Lagos Lagoon Front Resort, Lagos, Nigeria. The study draws on theoretical praxis of Western biophilic ideologies, spirit ontologies of the Global South, and largely, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) to examine eco-cultural green spaces, home gardens, and English-types of parks and gardens as archetypes of GI in Yoruba traditional urbanism, colonial and post-colonial city planning. The book provides methods of achieving a form of modernized traditionalism as means of translating the IKS into design strategies for eco-cultural cities. The strategies are framework, model, and ethnographic design algorithms that are syntheses of the lived experiences of the key informants.

Author : Deborah G. Martin,Joseph Pierce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509536207

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How To Think About Cities by Deborah G. Martin,Joseph Pierce Pdf

Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities’ intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. How To Think About Cities sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. This book describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. Martin and Pierce call for an explicitly hybrid perspective that shifts between many different frames for making sense of cities. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others. Thinking of cities as sites of contested perspectives promotes a synthetic approach to urban analysis that emphasizes difference and political possibility. This mosaic view of the city will be a welcome read for those within urban studies, geography, and social sciences exploring the many faces of urban life.

Author : E. Gregory McPherson,Paul Sacamano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Trees in cities
ISBN : MINN:31951D02262520P

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Modeling Benefits and Costs of Community Tree Plantings by E. Gregory McPherson,Paul Sacamano Pdf

Author : E. Gregory McPherson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781437936063

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Los Angeles 1-Million Tree Canopy Cover Assessment by E. Gregory McPherson Pdf

The Million Trees LA initiative intends to chart a course for sustainable growth through planting and stewardship of trees. This study measures LA's existing tree canopy cover (TCC), determines if space exists for 1 million additional trees, and estimates future benefits from the planting. Benefits were forecast for planting of 1 million trees between 2006 and 2010, and their growth and mortality were projected until 2040. LA's existing TCC was 21%. There is potential to add 2.5 million additional trees to the existing population of 10.8 million, but only 1.3 million of the potential tree sites are deemed realistic to plant. Thus, there is space for planting 1 million new trees. Benefits for the 1-million-tree planting were between $1.33 band $1.95 billion.

Author : K. M. McKinley
Publisher : Solaris
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849979122

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The City of Ice by K. M. McKinley Pdf

Author : Francesco Ferrini,Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch,Alessio Fini
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317237037

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry by Francesco Ferrini,Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch,Alessio Fini Pdf

More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry. It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, including for issues such as air quality, human well-being and stormwater management. It reviews the various stresses experienced by trees in cities and tolerance mechanisms, as well as cultural techniques for either pre-conditioning or alleviating stress after planting. It sets out sound planning, design, species selection, establishment and management of urban trees. It shows that close interactions with the local urban communities who benefit from trees are key to success. By drawing upon international state-of-art knowledge on arboriculture and urban forestry, the book provides a definitive overview of the field and is an essential reference text for students, researchers and practitioners.

Author : Lars Lerup
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621576

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After the City by Lars Lerup Pdf

An architect's view of the new metropolitan consciousness and the suburban metropolis as the future frontier.