The Uncertain Fate of a Better Market Street
Flickr credit: mk30 A couple of years ago, I wrote hopefully about the City of San Francisco’s plans to revamp our main thoroughfare, Market Street. The project, which began in…
Flickr credit: mk30 A couple of years ago, I wrote hopefully about the City of San Francisco’s plans to revamp our main thoroughfare, Market Street. The project, which began in…
How to assemble and install root barrier… starring Niki! We have a few video projects in the works, but this is the first one to be completed: a 90-second video…
Alex Shigo said “touch trees.” In addition to that, I saw say “touch soil.” Flickr credit: NRCS Soil Health Alex Shigo, one of the most famous plant biologists and fathers…
Topped tree: The tree doesn’t need this. Photo: Larry Costello. What do trees really need? Sunlight, surely. Water, and nutrients from the soil. But do they need pruning? Some trees…
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…
Tree-lined street in Paris. Image: zoetnet During the reign of French King Henry IV (“Henry of Navarre”) from 1579 to 1610, he and his Duke of Sully remade French infrastructure…
This image is borrowed from the Boulevard Temple daguerreotypes, taken in 1838 by Daguerre. It is the world’s oldest known photograph, depicting people and street trees in Paris at that…
Prior to the abundant use of concrete as the standard material, curbs were made of local quarried or other mined stone materials. Granite, such as seen above, made an excellent…
A diagram of the cross-section through a stream channel and its adjacent components. This system, not just the stream channel itself, serves to process water from the surrounding landscape in…
Flickr credit: Matthew Knott I spent last week visiting my family in New York City. The city in April can be dicey – you can get blooming trees and flowers,…