How forest urbanism can address the contemporary socio-ecological crisis This publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers. It explores the multifaceted notion of forest urbanisms, including a conceptual framing essay; contributions from the sciences such as bioscience engineering, architecture, urbanism and public policy; contemporary forest urbanism projects and explorative essays that make tangible an agenda for the 21st century. With descriptions of both built and non-built projects from around the globe, the essays show how such projects substantiate a radical shift in humankind’s occupation of the world, where ecologies and urbanisms converge and agriculture, forests, and settlements are integrated.Forest Urbanisms extends growing research on a new nature–culture relationship, the necessity for trees in cities, and a rebalancing of ecology and urbanism.Bruno De Meulder is professor of urbanism at KU Leuven. His research focuses on colonial and post-colonial as well as postindustrial contexts, combining historical analysis with design scenarios.Kelly Shannon is professor of urbanism at KU Leuven. Her research is at the crossroads of interpretative mapping and projective cartographies, focusing on landscape urbanism to rebalance ecology and development. A radical redefinition of how humanity occupies the earth — through forestry, agriculture, and settlement — and rearticulates environmental stewardship by intertwining ecologies and urbanisms, this publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers. It explores the multifaceted notion of forest urbanisms, including a conceptual framing essay, contributions from the sciences such as bioscience engineering, architecture, urbanism and public policy, contemporary forest urbanism projects and explorative essays that make tangible an agenda for the 21st century. With descriptions of both built and non-built projects from around the globe, the essays show how such projects substantiate a radical shift in humankind’s occupation of the world, where ecologies and urbanisms converge and agriculture, forestry, and settlements are integrated. Forest Urbanisms extends growing research on a new nature–culture relationship, the necessity for trees in cities, and a rebalancing of ecology and urbanism. FOREWORD PREFACE FRAMING FOREST URBANISMS A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AGENDA Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon FORESTS & SCIENCE I. THE 3 + 30 + 300 RULE FOR URBAN FORESTRY Chiara Cavalieri, Cecil Konijnendijk II. ON THE NEED OF LARGE OLD TREES TO KEEP CITIES YOUNG AND VIBRANT Rik De Vreese, Bart Muys III. INTENTIONALLY INCLUSIVE URBAN FORESTRY Colleen Murphy-Dunning FOREST URBANISMS PROJECTS I. LANDSCAPE AFTER NATURE Bureau Bas Smets II. FISH TAIL PARK Kongjian Yu, Turenscape III. DEN HOUT 2040 Wim Wambecq, Joris Moonen, MIDI IV. SALVADOR ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN Embyá Paisagens & Ecossistemas V. ‘NATURE VILLAGE’ EFFEKT VI. TRANSFORMING SOUTHBANK BOULEVARD TCL VII. MADRID METROPOLITAN FOREST (ZONE 4) aldayjover architecture and landscape FOREST URBANISMS EXPLORATIONS I. NATIVE, EXOTIC OR FUTURE-PROOF? NAVIGATING URBAN TREE PLANTING IN THE BRUSSELS MAELBEEK VALLEY Björn Bracke, Koenraad Danneels, Marlène Boura II. FORESTING A CHAR IN THE BRAHMAPUTRA VALLEY IN ASSAM, INDIA Swagata Das, Kelly Shannon, Bruno De Meulder III. VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE FORESTS. THE CULTIVATION OF SHADE IN WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA Kamni Gill IV. BRIDGING GREEN GAPS. EMPOWERING PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE THROUGH TREE PLANTING IN BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA Alejandra Parra-Ortiz, Gina Serrano-Aragundi V. URBAN FORESTS AS POST-MANICURE OUTDOOR DESIGN TYPES Jörg Rekittke VI. A FENCE THAT GREW A FOREST. A STRATEGY FOR A PARK AT PACHACAMAC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SANCTUARY Takako Tajima VII. FOREST LOGICS, LENSES AND ORDERS. TOWARDS A CLIMATE-FORWARD FOREST URBANISM ALONG THE ERIE CANAL NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR Jamie Vanucchi, Maria Goula ILLUSTRATION CREDITS COLOPHON