Do Street Trees Have a Future?
A symposium from UK UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MaB) Urban Forum on the subject of Street Trees and sustainability
This symposium on 12 May 2010 in London will be a platform for debate and will ask controversial questions:
- Why were street trees originally planted?
- Have ‘subsidence’ concerns now over-ruled commonsense?
- Are large street trees being reduced to small street trees, via use of cultivars, in current planting projects?
- What about the wholesale removal of large street trees?
- Are efforts to value street trees in terms of their ‘economics’ failing, or are there at least some partial successes?
- Can local political protection or sustainability considerations of trees as ‘intergenerational objects’ offer them better protection?
For more information and to book, see the MaB website.
