The Urban Forest in the Age of Urbanization

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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 urbanized 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" are reductionist. However, if the city is everywhere, and everything is a city, if the urbanized 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 analyze a wide range of urbanization "processes" to review the practical approaches of urban forestry, in line with the global crisis of the era of globalization, when climate change, population growth, implosions and explosions of urbanization, lack of arable land and food are unavoidable. Front Cover The Urban Forest in the Age of Urbanisation Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1 The Urban Forest in the Age of Urbanisation: Introduction 1.1 Urban Forest(ry) in the Era of Globalization 1.2 Indian Parable of Blind Men and an Elephant 1.3 Towards Holistic Approach in Urban Forestry 1.4 Paradigm Shift Towards the New Edge of Urban Forestry 1.5 From Dualism to Holism 1.6 From Local to Global Visions 2 “Exploring Global Scientific Discourses on Urban Forestry”: Literature Review 2.1 From Urban Forest to Woodland 2.2 Pollution 2.3 From Woodfuel to Luxury Gradient and Desertification 2.4 Economic Extraction 3 Dualism: Cities Versus Forests 3.1 Sacredness 3.2 Resourcism 3.3 Embellishment 3.4 Power and Luxury 3.5 Towards the Age of Enlightenment 4 Holism: Forests in Cities/Cities in Forests 4.1 From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism 4.2 Optimal Form of Forests 4.3 Forest and Cities in Avant-garde Planning Approach 4.4 Novel Boundaries for Forests and Cities in a Global Vision 4.5 “Puzzle Doer” of Forests and Cities on a Global Scale 5 Urbanization and Forestation: Case Studies 5.1 Developed Cities 5.2 Shrinking Cities 5.3 Self-Constructed Cities 6 Towards a Planetary Vision: Conclusion 6.1 “If God is Now ‘Green”’ 6.2 Rethinking the Urban Forests for the 21st Century 6.3 “A Good Anthropocene” General References Index About the Author Back Cover