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A City is Not a Tree has been widely described as a landmark text, and the Resource for Urban Design Information calls it "one of the classic references in the literature of the built environment and related fields". [4] In 2016 a 50th Anniversary edition was published by Sustasis Press/Off the Common Books. [5]
Plants including trees are important in mythology and religion, where they symbolise themes such as fertility, growth, immortality and rebirth, and may be more or less magical. [114] [115] Thus in Latvian mythology, Austras koks is a tree which grows from the start of the Sun's daily journey across the sky.
Marmosets can be found living wild in city parks in Brazil. [71] Urban-dwelling marmosets tend to return more often to the same sleeping sites than jungle-dwelling marmosets. Urban-dwelling marmosets tend to prefer to sleep in tall trees with high branches and smooth bark. It has been suggested they do this to avoid cats. [71]
This is a list of U.S. state and territory plants and botanical gardens — plants and botanical gardens which have been designated as an official symbol(s) by a state or territory's legislature. 5 U.S. states and 1 U.S. territory have an official state/territory plant. 7 U.S. states have an official state botanical garden or arboretum.
In the late 60's, street trees were used to solve urban environmental issues, such as air and noise pollution. The Tokyo Olympic Games also gave the government a valid reason to plant more trees in the city. There were 12,000 street trees planted in Tokyo by 1965. [122] The species composition of street trees changed dramatically from 1980 to 1996.
This allée of trees, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is an example so-called "kissing canopies", when the canopies of street trees reach all the way over a road and thus provide dappled shade along the entire route. An urban forest is a forest, or a collection of trees, that grow within a city, town or a suburb. In a wider sense, it may ...
Though many animals build things to provide a better environment for themselves, they are not human, hence beaver dams and the works of mound-building termites are thought of as natural. People cannot find absolutely natural environments on Earth,naturalness usually varies in a continuum, from 100% natural in one extreme to 0% natural in the other.
Grapes being trodden to extract the juice and made into wine in storage jars. Tomb of Nakht, 18th dynasty, Thebes, Ancient Egypt. Human uses of plants include both practical uses, such as for food, clothing, and medicine, and symbolic uses, such as in art, mythology and literature. Materials derived from plants are collectively called plant ...