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An eco-city or ecocity is "a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems", as defined by Ecocity Builders (a non-profit organization started by Richard Register, who first coined the term). [1] Simply put, an eco-city is an ecologically healthy city.
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]
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 ...
A sustainable city, eco-city, or green city is a city designed with consideration for the social, economic, and environmental impact (commonly referred to as the triple bottom line), as well as a resilient habitat for existing populations. This is done in a way that does not compromise the ability of future generations to experience the same. [1]
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.
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.
Satellite photograph of deforestation in Bolivia.Originally dry tropical forest, the land is being cleared for soybean cultivation. [5]Biodiversity hotspots are chiefly tropical regions that feature high concentrations of endemic species and, when all hotspots are combined, may contain over half of the world's terrestrial species. [6]
The newer model, dubbed "CityTree 2020", is made of wood and is a hexagonal shape, which Green City Solutions called a "Bauhaus-inspired design". They stated that the 2020 version also has a reduced CO2 footprint. [18] Green City Solutions claimed in February 2021 that the new CityTree can "inactivate 1/5 of coronaviruses". [19]