History of Street Trees in Paris Paris the minute to Paris the modest
…of France as a world military power, with Paris at its center. As in other walled medieval cities, this vision demanded that Paris’s streets be widened and hardened for support…
…of France as a world military power, with Paris at its center. As in other walled medieval cities, this vision demanded that Paris’s streets be widened and hardened for support…
…of Paris’s street scenes of the 1870’s & 1880’s. Image: Wikipedia. The remaking of Paris fell squarely onto the shoulders of Napoleon I’s grandson, Napoleon III. Napoleon III accepted his…
A view of Paris from Montmartre. Image credit: Cedric Paul This week, all three of our posts are devoted to the history of street trees in Paris – a city…
…or Swamp Chaemocyparis thyoides X 5 X False Cypress, Lawson’s Chaemocyparis lawsoniana X 6 X False Cypress, Nootka Chaemocyparis nootkatensis X 6 X Fig Ficus microphylla var. nitida X 9…
…trees. Wider spacing allows crowns to fully develop without competing for sunlight and provides access to more soil. Toronto: left, Paris: right Urban Forestry policymakers should allow landscape architects and…
…planted on city walls in Europe for strolling (like those in Paris) were not planted on those walls. The absence of walls allowed a new kind of development- suburban sprawl….
…outdoor dining can be seen on the streets of Paris or alleyways in Italy as far back as the 1800s, it hadn’t taken off or been consistently incorporated into design…
…Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged that the District would continue to stand by the targets of the Paris Climate Accord even as the country as a whole withdrew from the agreement….
…grand scale in places like Brussels and Paris and began thinking- why can’t we do that in London and Manchester and Liverpool? And so the inspiration behind the Victorian street…
…voices from 21 different people talking about how to measure resilience in cities – and what it really means. Read through responses from people in Stockhold, Paris, Venice, Durban, Tokyo,…