Growing Canopy on a College Campus: Understanding Urban Forest Change through Archival Records and Aerial Photography

Environmental Management

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1042-1061

  Roman, Lara A ^a   Fristensky, Jason P ^a,b   Eisenman, Theodore S ^c   Greenfield, Eric J ^d   Lundgren, Robert E ^e   Cerwinka, Chloe E ^e   Hewitt, David A ^f   Welsh, Caitlin C ^e  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Berger Partnership   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f Wagner Free Institute of Science   (United States)

Author keywords

City planning history; Landscape design; Sustainable campus; Urban ecology; Urban environmental history; Urban tree canopy

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNAS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CITY PLANNING HISTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; LANDSCAPE DESIGN; PLANNING HISTORY; SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS; TREE COVER; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; URBAN FORESTS; URBAN TREE CANOPIES;

URBAN PLANNING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; GREENSPACE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MICROCOSM; PLANNING HISTORY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

BOTANY; CANOPY; CITY PLANNING; COLLEGE; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANDSCAPE; MICROCOSM; NARRATIVE; PENNSYLVANIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; INFORMATION CENTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; TREE; URBANIZATION;

PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; UNITED STATES;

ARCHIVES; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PENNSYLVANIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAVES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TREES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85029432068     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-017-0934-0     Document Type: Article

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