The Trees of the City

The Assessment of Residents’ Perception of Possible Benefits and Challenges of Home Vertical Gardens in Kigali, Rwanda

“…While the development of urban landscapes was recommended widely by urban development documents [28][29][30], the implementation and application in small scales, particularly households, faced challenges due to the absence of clear guidelines [18,31]. In fact, on the one hand, the development of urban landscapes failed due to the low level of knowledge about arboriculture to reduce the urban landscape into wood trees [32][33][34]. On the other hand, the small-scale gardens have been integrated into the ethno-botanical aspects of society [18] and socio-ecological interaction along the time [35], which resulted in gaps between inhabitants and natural environment [12] that have reduced gardens globally in a household scale.…”

Variations of the Treescape in Relation to Urban Development in a Chinese City: The Case of Nanjing

“…They provide visible and tangible means by which citizens interact with nature, and they provide habitat and food to sustain wildlife in the urban environment. To facilitate such functions, landscape professionals employ trees to decorate the urban landscape, separate or define spaces, ameliorate settlement microclimate, and abate air pollution (Schmid 1975;Nadel 1977;Walker 1990;Bradshaw, Hunt, and Walmsley 1995). Trees enrich the cityscape with specific scenery composed of diversified assemblages of species of graceful forms, seasonality, and-in some places-outstanding performance.…”

The Management of Urban Street Trees Using Computerised Inventory Systems

“…Since Haussmann the importance of trees in cities has been fully appreciated all over the world. Cities such as Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vancouver and Washington DC are famous for their tree-lined streets (NADEL and OBERLANDER, 1977).…”