Overview
- Explores the history of urban planning and urban forestry that has seldom been addressed
- Offers unique accounts from those personally involved in the reconstruction of post-war urban forests
- Presents photographs from international cities illustrating the destruction and reconstruction of urban forests
- Examines lessons-to –be-learned in the reconstruction of urban forests after natural or man-made disasters
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About the authors
Judith Stilgenbauer is is a professor in landscape architecture and urban design in the School of Architecture at the University of Hawaii at manoa. She serves as the Director of the Landscape Architecture Program. She earned a MLA degee from the University of California at Berkeley and a Dipl.-Ing. from the Technische Universität München. Her creative work in teaching and applied research focuses on the role of process, performance, and placemaking in ecological urbanism and public open space design across diverse spatial and temporal scales. Stilgenbauer’s recent design research has focused on urban land-water relationships and adaptive coastal resilience design. Stilgenbauer is a director on the national American Society of Landscape Architects’ Board of Trustees.
Igor Lacan is a University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor for the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in urban forestry. He earned his PhD in Urban Ecology, a MS in Aquatic Ecology, and a BS in Ecology from UC Berkeley. His program of applied research and extension provides technical and policy tools to advance sustainable environmental management. Focusing on urban trees and urban water. He has developed research projects on emerging issues in urban landscapes that have produced extension and outreach materials to transfer findings from the University of California and other academic sources to the practitioners, including landscape professionals, planners and architects, local governments, Cooperative Extension colleagues and other academics, and tree-focused non-governmental organizations.
Sheauchi Cheng is Assistant Trade Director, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture. She previously worked as a plant ecologist for the Pacific Southwest Forest Experiment Station, US Forest Service, Berkeley, CA. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry from the National University of Taiwan in Taipei, a Master of Arts degree in forest landscape design and planning from the University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. degree in forest ecology from the University of California in Berkeley. Prior to joining the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, her research was focused on urban forest composition, structure, and function in cities in China and Japan, as well as research natural areas in California. She served a one-year assignment as a volunteer in Afghanistan to help rebuild that country's agricultural sector in 2011.
Scot Medbury is Director of the Quarryhill Botanical Garden in Sonoma County, CA. He formerly served, from 2005 to 2020, as President and Chief executive officer of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. As leader of the Brooklyn Botanical garden he provided vision and strategic leadership to the Garden’s highly successful Campaign for the Next Century capital campaign, which added new gardens, refined visitor facilities and expanded and strengthened education and community programs for the next generations of visitors. He earned a B.A. degree from the Jackson School of International Studies and a M.S. degree in Urban Horticulture from the University of Washington.
Deborah L. McBride is Assistant Professor at Samuel Merritt University, Oakland, CA. She earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, MLA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, and MSN degree from Samuel Merritt University and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reconstruction of Urban Forests
Book Subtitle: Post World War II and the Bosnian War
Authors: Joe R. McBride, Judith Stilgenbauer, Igor Lacan, Sheauchi Cheng, Scot Medbury, Deborah L. McBride
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64938-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64937-1Published: 17 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64940-1Published: 17 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64938-8Published: 16 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 106
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Ecology, Urban History, History, general, Human Geography, Geography, general