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The Forest and the City

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Across the world, city forests are developing in close relation with local urban communities, both facing their respective challenges. When visiting city forests in different countries and cities, I am always amazed by the many roles they play, and about their variety and diversity, from an almost wild forest in Vancouver to the formality of former royal estates in Paris, and from the spontaneous development of new woodland in the Ruhr area of Germany to the highly designed afforestation in the forests of Flevoland in The Netherlands.

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Konijnendijk, C.C. (2018). A Forest for the Future. In: The Forest and the City. Future City, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75076-7_15

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