Growing the city into forest
Mayfield Brooks – Viewing Hours [ A 0 , 0 ] [ ⋇ ] Animals live from the grace of phloem – the vascular tissue of plants transporting sugars. Contrary to philosophies of life fixated on competition and violence, Phloem Phloem focuses on the profound generosity and cooperation of plants. ( Phloem Phloem, Growing the …
[ ⋇ ] 1893, GoshenStill later that August, during the first year of the panic, the good women of Goshen staged a tree-planting ceremony in the schoolyard, to beautify their world. The children, the mayor, and other townspeople assembled to plant two big-leaf maples, a linden, and—someone’s supreme inspiration—a Douglas fir. They were disappointed that …
[ ⋇ ] There are designed projects in the built environment where urbanism is “forest.” These artworks, buildings, landscapes, and development strategies have in common the idea of an underlying matrix, or a surrounding substance and foundation, made of a continuing and resilient ecosystem of trees, understory vegetation, wildlife, soils and microorganisms, terrestrial and atmospheric …
[ ⋇ ] It is proposed to plant from one to three examples of each species of tree on open lawn, and with sufficient space about each to allow it to attain its fullest size with unrestricted expanse of branches; the effect of each tree is also to be exhibited iu masses, so as to illustrate …