Taylor & Francis The Urban Forest in the Age of Urbanisation (River Publishers Series in Chemical, Environmental, and Energy Engineering)

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 urbanised 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", might be reductionist. However, if the city is everywhere, and everything is a city, if the urbanised 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 analyse a wide range of urbanisation "processes" to review the practical approaches of urban forestry, in line with the global crisis of the era of globalisation, when climate change, population growth, implosions and explosions of urbanisation, lack of arable land and food are unavoidable. About the Author Born in Tehran (1984), Samaneh is a lecturer at the Agricultural University of Iceland. She received her Ph.D. in Landscape and Environment from Sapienza - University of Rome, and her Ph.D. thesis has been elected as the winner of Europen Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), Annual Awards 2018 - Outstanding Student Award, 3rd cycle. She got her master with honours from Sapienza - University of Rome (2013). Before she got into Landscape studies, she completed the Bachelor of Computer Hardware Engineering (Tehran, 2002-2006). She was engaged on issues ranging from Urban renewal to Green Infrastructure and Water System management. She has conducted field research at PennDesign - Pennsylvania University (2017) and Université de Liège (2012). She has been the former teaching assistant at the Architecture Faculty of Sapienza University of Rome (2014-2019). Samaneh's research interests focus on solving Large-Scale Planning problems with particular attention to holistic approaches.