Main entry:

Boeri, Stefano, author.

Title & Author:

Green obsession : trees towards cities, humans towards forests / Stefano Boeri Architetti.

Publication:

New York, NY : Actar Publishers, 2021.
New York : Distributed by Actar D, Inc.

Description:

383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color charts, color maps, portrait ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-375).
Questions, an introduction / Stefano Boeri -- A preface / Maria Chiara Pastore -- The fragility of a species / Stefano Boeri -- I. The environmental and climate crisis : An overview / Simone Marchetti and Maria Chiara Pastore ; Towards the ethics of responsibility / Stefano Borei ; Behind our ethical choices / Simone Marchetti ; Regeneration vs extraction. On the nature of man a dialogue between Stefano Borei and Paul Hawken -- II. Taxonomies of the earth : A new agreement / Stefano Boeri ; Drivers of change / Simone Marchetti and Luis Pimentel ; Ideas for a new world. time, space, movement / Stefano Boeri ; Theories to protect Gaia -- biodiversity in global projects and networks / Simone Marchetti ; Green urban oases -- a world scale project / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Scaling down -- from global to continental / Simone Marchetti ; A new reciprocity contract between cities and villages / Stefano Boeri ; The national scale- Parco Italia / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Inner areas and villages -- 4 ideas: food for thought / Maria Lucrezia De Marco, Corrado Longa, Simone Marchetti, and Luis Pimentel -- III. The urban framework : Three dystopias / Stefano Boeri ; The urban framework / David Miller ; The role of cities / Luis Pimentel ; Urban forestry -- an introduction to a landscape ecological urbanism approach / Livia Shamir ; Tirana 2030 / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; San Marino 2030 / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; The Green River / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; The Vertical Forest / Emanuele Coccia ; The Vertical Forest as an icon / Stefano Boeri and Guido Musante ; Vertical Forests- experiences and perspectives / Maria Lucrezia De Marco ; Manifesto Botanica / Stefano Boeri Architetti -- IV. Trees towards cities, humans towards forests : Zoonosis, deforestation. The perspective for urban forestry / Stefano Boeri ; A brief history of the forest and the role of agriculture / Simone Marchetti ; The expo and agriculture / Stefano Boeri ; Forest-human relationship. Meaning and identities / Simone Marchetti ; Cancun Smart Forest City / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Syracuse- the dead wood of Trojan women / Stefano Boeri ; Radura della Memoria, Polcevera Park and the Red Circle / Fiamma Colette Invernizzi ; The wisdom of the Yanomami an interview with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami ; Unfolding Forests / Giorgio Vacchiano ; The relationship between public health and greenery a dialogue between Pier Mannuccio Mannucci and Laura Gatti ; Humans and wild animals live in the same cities. Is it alliance or rivalry? an interview with Enrico Alleva and Fredi Devas ; The role of design. Urban forestry as a practice / Simone Marchetti ; About designing with nature an interview with Thomas B. Randrup ; Tirana Riverside / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Stefano Boeri Architetti's green obsession an interview with Francesca Cesa Bianchi and Marco Giorgio ; Prato Urban Jungle / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Wonderwoods / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; The wood cycle / Sofia Paoli ; Grand Genève Constellation Métropolitaine / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Amatrice -- Polo del gusto / Stefano Boeri Architetti ; Let's talk about forests and Urban Forestry to redesign the world we live in / Stefano Boeri and Maria Chiara Pastore -- V. Kaleidoscopic futures : Four futures. Environment and politics / Stefano Boeri ; How greening cities can help save the planet / Jane Goodall ; Trudo Vertical Forest / Fiamma Colette Invernizzi ; The Tree's right to dwell / Simone Marchetti ; Towards a new alliance between city and nature / Maria Chiara Pastore ; (Re)nature-ing resilient cities. The future of sustainability in urban areas in South East Asia / Harini Nagendra ; Building with nature -- towards an alternative "green architecture" / Xiangning Li ; Nanjing Vertical Forest / Stefano Boeri Architetti China ; Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest / Stefano Boeri Architetti China ; The politics of parks: green space and social inequality in New York City a dialogue between Stefano Boeri and Mitchell Silver ; On ecosystem services, accessible cities, and environmental justice. A new approach for inclusiveness in urban planning a dialogue between Cecil Konijnendijk and Stefano Boeri ; Forestami. An introduction / Giuseppe Sala ; Forestami. The three million trees campaign for the Metropolitan City of Milan / Maria Chiara Pastore ; Forest City Manifesto / Stefano Boeri Architetti China ; Final thoughts / Stefano Boeri.

Summary:

"Cities have contributed for centuries to the promotion of some of humanity's greatest ideas, we must now urgently include them as among the principal players in the environmental debate and at the forefront of any policy tackling and countering - possibly reversing - climate change. Nevertheless, even today one of the most significant technologies capable of absorbing CO2 and restoring our environment is photosynthesis. Planting trees, in addition to protecting existing natural areas and biodiversity, together with de-carbonization, renewable energies, digitalization, smart mobility and the circular economy could be the set of strategies necessary to tackle climate change. Today the effects of the Anthropocene age are ever more visible, changing our environment and affecting every species that lives within it. Green Obsession offers a path to be taken, a hard but still necessary paradigm shift - even for architecture and urbanism - that aims to give a voice to this much needed ecological transition. This book aims to unveil the processes and the complexity involved in the search for a new kind of urbanism, while raising questions and opening old wounds related to the relationship between the human species and Nature and finally putting these fragments together to create a portrait of our era. We need to conceive cities as new green catalysts. Now more than ever, it is essential to act together as separate individuals and professionals, joining the cause as members of the global community with a shared environmental strategy. We all have to open the era of a new alliance between Nature and City"

ISBN:

1948765586 paperback
9781948765589 paperback

Subject:

Stefano Boeri Architetti.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Sustainable urban development.
Urbanisme durable.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Trees in cities.
Nature and civilization.
Nature Effect of human beings on.

Added entries:

Pastore, Maria Chiara, 1980- editor.
Marchetti, Simone, editor.
Alleva, E. (Enrico), interviewee.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315309
Call No.: 315309
Copy: 1
Status: Available