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The twentieth century was the urban century. It has been forecast that urban areas across the world will have expanded by more than 2.4 million people by 2050, covering an area in excess of 1.2 million km2. The UK will not be immune from this expansion. There have been many attempts over the years to design ‘urban utopias’ to create the ideal urban experience, but the scale and speed of urbanisation have all-to-often compromised such attempts. Have we created urban ‘dystopias’ rather than urban utopias? Recent experiences regarding the negative effects of the coronavirus on human beings have further emphasised these issues. This paper will suggest therefore that it will only be through re-establishing contact with natural processes and reconciliation ecology that the urban areas of the future will be able to function, be viable, and be able to adequately support the health and well-being of their urban populations. The concept of urban forestry will be discussed, as will its role in choreographing the increasingly creative way that it is approaching this task by shining new light through old windows.

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Urban Forestry—Shining New Light Through Old Windows by Choreographing Creative Responses to the Current Crisis in the Quality of Urban Life and Environment

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    2025年

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  • Alan Simson

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The twentieth century was the urban century. It has been forecast that urban areas across the world will have expanded by more than 2.4 million people by 2050, covering an area in excess of 1.2 million km2. The UK will not be immune from this expansion. There have been many attempts over the years to design ‘urban utopias’ to create the ideal urban experience, but the scale and speed of urbanisation have all-to-often compromised such attempts. Have we created urban ‘dystopias’ rather than urban utopias? Recent experiences regarding the negative effects of the coronavirus on human beings have further emphasised these issues. This paper will suggest therefore that it will only be through re-establishing contact with natural processes and reconciliation ecology that the urban areas of the future will be able to function, be viable, and be able to adequately support the health and well-being of their urban populations. The concept of urban forestry will be discussed, as will its role in choreographing the increasingly creative way that it is approaching this task by shining new light through old windows.