Sylvan City Design: A Visual Manual of Urban Tree and Forest Landscape Architecture

Richly illustrated with the author’s exquisite drawings, this visual manual provides a concise and practical introduction to contemporary urban landscape architecture with trees and forest: Sylvan City Design. Aimed at student and professional landscape architects and environmental designers, the manual will also appeal to other urban disciplines and to communities engaged with neighbourhood spaces in the context of the potential for trees to transform city living for climate resilience, green health, social equity, biodiversity and - at the same time - enriched urban culture. A sylvan city is foremost ‘made, shaped or formed of woods or trees’.Catherine Dee sets out to demonstrate how and why settlements may be better designed by considering trees as the indispensable ‘ground’ of a city, forming a life-giving, long-term dwelling matrix into which buildings and built infrastructure are fitted. The manual is organised in two parts. Part I: Principles, Strategies + Methods introduces the