Urban Tree Canopy Assessment Toolkit
The Urban Tree Canopy Assessment Toolkit is based on three years of collaboration across local, regional and national partners to…
Greening without Gentrification: Learning from Parks-Related Anti-Displacement Strategies Nationwide
When large parks are built in historically marginalized urban areas, they can contribute to “green gentrification,” a process involving increases…
The Baltimore Wood Project: A Comprehensive Workbook
This workbook captures the full “Baltimore experience” and distills it into lessons applicable to any community attempting to turn wood…
Impact of Abandoned Housing on Cities
This thoughtful and data-rich paper explores the issue of endemic long-term vacancies on urban neighborhoods and describes some of the…
Metrics for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
Yale University’s Samuel Center for Social Connectiveness has developed a comprehensive set of metrics by which cities can measure both…
Landscape, vegetation characteristics, and group identity in an urban and suburban watershed
As highly managed ecosystems, urban areas should reflect the social characteristics of their managers, who are primarily residents. Since landscape…
Relationship Between Urban Greening Projects and Social/Ecological Characteristics
This paper utilizes public records, administrative data, a geodemographic market segmentation database, and high-resolution land cover data to assess where…
Influence of Tree Planting Program Characteristics on Environmental Justice Outcomes
Urban tree benefits are largely spatially-dependent, so this disparity has a disproportionate impact on these communities, which are additionally subject…
Addressing Environmental Injustice Through Urban Forests
The findings suggest that urban forestry does have the ability to redistribute the environmental, economic, and psychosocial benefits of tree…
Trees Grow on Money: Urban Forests Signal Environmental Injustice
Across all cities there is a strong positive correlation between urban tree canopy cover and median household income.
Street Trees and Equity
Research has shown a significantly lower proportion of tree cover on public right-of-way in neighborhoods containing a higher proportion of African-Americans,…
Urban Forests Aid in Mitigating Environmental Injustice
The social, environmental, and economic benefits of urban trees can mitigate many negative aspects of the built environment. As such,…
Demographics and Vegetation Cover
As highly managed ecosystems, urban areas should reflect the social characteristics of their managers, who are primarily residents. This paper…