The Urban Forest in the Age of Urbanisation

The Urban Forest in the Age of Urbanization seeks to reflect on the connotation of urban forestry in line with related emergent holistic theories. Today, much of the planet is urbanised and planners debate "Planetary Urbanization", economists discuss "The Global City", ecologists describe the planet's biodiversity hotspots, and climate scientists warn of a "global" crisis. We might think therefore that focusing on forestation approaches at the Urban and peri-urban "edge", might be reductionist. However, if the city is everywhere, and everything is a city, if the urbanised world now is a chain of metropolitan areas connected by places and corridors of communication, then what is not urban? And above all, which forests are not urban forests?Starting from the dualism between city and forest and its evolution towards holism, the book seeks to create a framework of dialectical approaches. The case studies included analyse a wide range of urbanisation "processes" to review the practical approaches of urban forestry, in line with the global crisis of the era of globalisation, when climate change, population growth, implosions and explosions of urbanisation, lack of arable land and food are unavoidable.

Author: Samaneh Sadat Nickayin
Publisher: River Publishers
Published: 12/13/2021
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9788770226516

About the Author
Nickayin, Samaneh Sadat: - "Samaneh Sadat Nickayin is a lecturer at Agricultural University of Iceland. She moved to Italy at a young age to pursue studies in Landscape Architecture. She received her Ph.D. in Landscape and Environment from "Sapienza" (March 2018) and her Ph.D. thesis has been elected as the winner of ECLAS Annual Awards 2018 - Outstanding Student Award, 3rd cycle. She graduated with honors from "Sapienza" with a master thesis entitled "Landscape for river reclamation: Meuse river--its floodplain system, identity, and transformation" in Belgium. Before she got into Landscape studies, she received a Bachelor of Computer Hardware Engineering (Tehran, 2002-2006). Prior to attending Ph.D. program, she worked for several Architectural Firms, winning several national and international competitions. She was engaged on issues ranging from Urban renewal to Green Infrastructure and Water System management, working in New Zealand, Turkey, Italy and Iran. She has conducted field research at The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design (2017) and Université de Liège (2012). Prior to moving to Iceland, she was the former teaching assistant of Prof. Franco Zagari and Prof. Fabio Di Carlo at Sapienza. Samaneh's research interests focus on solving Large-Scale Planning problems with particular attention to holistic approaches. She is the author of many essays in journals and books."

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