Overview
- Offers a unique view on the relationships between cities and their forests through a cultural and social lens
- Frames the discussion of city forests within larger forestry, urban planning, green infrastructure debates
- Contains numerous case studies and examples from across the world based on the author’s unique experience in global urban forestry work
Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 9)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong’s country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed – and in some cases are promoting – a distinct ‘forest identity’. This book introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial.
Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal. For with city forests playing an increasingly important role in local government sustainability programs, it provides an important reference for those involved in urban planning and decision making, public affairs and administration, and even public health.
From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source ofconflict, the book presents examples of city forests from around the world. These cases clearly illustrate how the social and cultural development of towns and forests has often gone hand in hand. They also reveal how better understanding of city forests as distinct cultural and social phenomena can help to strengthen synergies both between cities and forests, and between urban society and nature.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Cecil Konijnendijk, a Dutch national based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has studied and promoted the role of woodlands and trees in urban societies throughout his career. After employment in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Hong Kong, he started as professor of urban forestry at the University of British Columbia in 2016. His present work includes, among other, research, teaching, advising urban forestry practitioners, and writing about urban forestry issues. He has coordinated several international networks and research projects dealing with city forests and other green space. Cecil is also editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, and series editor of Springer’s Future City book series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Forest and the City
Book Subtitle: The Cultural Landscape of Urban Woodland
Authors: Cecil C. Konijnendijk
Series Title: Future City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75076-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75075-0Published: 23 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09142-2Published: 04 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75076-7Published: 12 March 2018
Series ISSN: 1876-0899
Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry, Urban Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Popular Science in Nature and Environment