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Conversations on Urban forestry
Johanna Gibbons
The first book published by Landscape Learn, Conversations on Urban Forestry, by Johanna Gibbons was launched at the end of 2019 and is now exclusively available from Landscape Learn or J & L Gibbons.
Urban forests are a dynamic organic structure of remarkable biodiversity and biomass embedded within the fabric of a city. They mark time through the changing seasons and natural cycles of growth and decay. The urban forest is an essential part of the character and heritage of the urban and peri-urban environment. The urban forest is of interest not just to the landscape architect, scientist, artist, architect, engineer, planner, enthusiast, community activist and environmental campaigner, but also to the 5-year-old who plants a tree and watches it grow through their lifetime. Jo Gibbons explores the implicit interconnection of people and trees in the city through a number of conversations with extraordinary individuals who champion the urban forest. In the face of a climate change emergency these conversations highlight through different lenses, how urban forestry is not only part of the solution, is something that as individuals we can all contribute to, creating a collective capacity for caring for our ecosystem.
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REVIEW
‘Conversations on Urban Forestry is an inspiration. It explores the human connection with trees in cities, where the majority of the world's people now live, offering valuable insights into urban health and well-being. The writing is elegant, and the production is truly artful. A sense of wholeness and reverence pervades the book. And it offers more than a conventional reading experience; it's also a tactile experience. The paper itself feels so good to hold, that as I read the book, I felt connected to the trees that provided it.’
Howard Frumkin
Emeritus Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and former Dean, University of Washington School of Public Health, Former Head, Our Planet, Our Health initiative, Wellcome Trust
Jo and Neil presented a seminar on Systemic Design in Urbanism, at the Dipartimento di Architettura Roma Tre on Friday the 15th February 2019.
They talked about the work of Landscape Learn and J & L Gibbons and the need to interface with natural processes and cultural networks to help sustain life and wellbeing in the city.
Neil talked at Nature and Well-being in the design of contemporary public space an international conference hosted by the University of Naples Federico II on the 28th of January.
He introduced the work of Landscape Learn and J & L Gibbons and the Urban Mind project with reference to the role of nature in open urban spaces.
