Trees, People and the Built Environment

[Paul Barton]

Hands up if you find it frustrating that trees are often low on the agenda when it comes to development and design of the urban landscape....

 

Do you wish that town planners, landscape architects and building architects listened to Arbs more?

 

Would you like Arboriculture to be taken more seriously by other professions...thereby improving your long-term job prospects and making your working life more interesting?

 

If you have answered yes to any of the above then you may want to consider being at the Institute of Chartered Foresters conference in Birmingham in April this year.

 

The conference is going to bring together lots of professionals from across the globe and the line up of speakers will be very varied.

 

Hope to see some of you there:thumbup:

ICF_2011_FLYER_A5_STANDARD.pdf

Trees_People_and_the_Built_Environment_Programme pdf.pdf

[David Humphries]

Had my eye on it, as it looks like a very well thought out conference.

 

Sadly can't make this one

 

 

 

Would really appreciate a little write up if you get the chance Paul.

 

Just afew bullet points

 

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[Paul Barton]

Will do Tony.

 

I am afraid it probably won't be as detailed and erudite as Sir Sorensen's summary of the Arb conference but I will do my best!

[David Humphries]

Will do Tony.

 

I am afraid it probably won't be as detailed and erudite as Sir Sorensen's summary of the Arb conference but I will do my best!

 

 

 

Who's Tony ????

 

 

 

Does that make it one all

 

 

 

 

Your best will be ellequently ample I'm sure

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[mdvaden]

For me, I tend to find that space is low on the agenda. Out here, there is so much effort to squeeze housing & reduce "urban sprawl", that what I call Urban Compaction is virtually worse.

[Paul Barton]

Who's Tony ????

 

 

 

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:blushing:Sorry David! Got my mixed all words up.

[RobArb]

would love to go...

 

but can't afford it:thumbdown:

[Paul Barton]

For me, I tend to find that space is low on the agenda. Out here, there is so much effort to squeeze housing & reduce "urban sprawl", that what I call Urban Compaction is virtually worse.

 

I am surprised at that - I would have thought you have less worries about space over in the USA.

 

I like the term Urban Compaction....it is engrained in planning policy here now although more often referred to as urban intensification and in-filling. Greenbelt countryside around towns is almost sacrosanct so in-filling existing urban areas is all the rage. This is putting alot of pressure on urban greenspace and parks/sports fields/gardens are being built on everywhere.

 

In my opinion this has a long term detrimental effect of making urban areas less attractive as places to live...maybe continuing the urban sprawl is better than that?

[Paul Barton]

So, any Arbtalkers going to be at this event tomorrow/Thursday?

[Frank]

What an interesting thread. Would love to be at the conference but busy. A detailed write up would be most interesting and well appreciated.

 

 

How many drive into (or through) "green" areas or "leafy suburbs" with lots of mature trees and think to themselves "oh this is a lovely area, I'd love to live around here".

 

Yet when they buy their brand new build houses, the tree in the front garden is the first thing to get the chop as it "blocks light" or drops leaves.