Magazine article
Branching out
Planning, Vol.75(3), p.10
03/01/2009
Abstract
Trees provide most of the green infrastructure needed to manage air and water pollution, saving communities money while helping achieve environmental goals. Many cities are putting these ideas to work in urban forestry programs. In fact, identifying best practices in urban forestry was the goal of a three-year study managed by APA's Research Department that resulted in the new Planning Advisory Service (PAS) Report, Planning the Urban Forest: Ecology, Economy, and Community Development, published in January 2009. The purpose of the new PAS Report was to try to answer that very question by examining best practices across the US in integrating urban forest concerns into the planning process. This included the preparation of 13 case studies of communities with successful programs, examining what drove their creation, who is involved, how they are funded, and how they achieve their goals. The future for this conjunction of urban planning and the urban forest probably holds threefold: technical, human, and strategic.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Branching out
- Creators
- James C Schwab
- Resource Type
- Magazine article
- Publication Details
- Planning, Vol.75(3), p.10
- Publisher
- American Planning Association; Chicago
- ISSN
- 0001-2610
- eISSN
- 2162-4577
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Planning and Public Affairs
- Record Identifier
- 9984271560002771
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