Rethinking Urban Forestry Through Resources Accessibility

Sánchez, Diego Martín; Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu; Wen, Yeo Kai; Lobo, Noemí Gómez

doi:10.3130/aijt.27.1074

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“…Additionally, it is also selected for its background as a center of experimentation in forestry, which has produced a particularly biodiverse forest, with century-old tree species and a significantly high canopy density. The park workers, who take care of the relations between natural resources and citizens, are often invisible to the public eye [42]. However, they have found in social media a way to narrate the spatial and temporal rhythms of green space management and the life of other beings that inhabit the urban forest.…”

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Urban Forest Tweeting: Social Media as More-Than-Human Communication in Tokyo’s Rinshinomori Park

Sánchez

Lobo

2023

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Urban parks are places that have significant impact on the physical and mental health of citizens, but they are also for safeguarding biodiversity and thus fostering human–nature interactions in the everyday landscape. The exploration of these spaces through social media represents a novel field of research that is contributing to revealing patterns of visitor behavior. However, there is a lack of comparable research from a non-anthropocentric perspective. What if we could use social media as a more-than-human communication medium? This research aims to reveal the possibility of communicating the urban forest’s voice through the examination of the official Twitter account of a metropolitan park in Tokyo. To this end, an analysis of the content of the messages is carried out, focusing on the narrative voice from which the message is told, the protagonists, the action performed, the network of actors deployed, and the place where it occurs. It is found that the majority of these messages are delivered from a non-human perspective, where plants, animals, or meteorological agents behave deploying complex networks of more-than-human interaction. The current study reveals the latent potential of non-humans as possible agents within the realm of social media, which can mediate the relationships between humans and their environment. It introduces a layer that can be incorporated into future lines of research, as well as provides a model case that illustrates a good practice in the management and communication of urban green spaces.

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Urban Forest Tweeting: Social Media as More-Than-Human Communication in Tokyo’s Rinshinomori Park

Sánchez

Lobo

2023

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Transdisciplinary tools in modern urban planning theory (by the example of the concept of "urban vegetation")

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2023

Urban construction and architecture

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The changes in theoretical urban planning concepts under the influence of transdisciplinarity are investigated. On the example of the definition of "urban vegetation", the variability of the use of linguistic and content structures for its description is discussed. A brief review of texts illustrating the transition from the concept of "resource assessment" (which is centered on the analysis of the consumer value of individual natural components of the urban environment) to the concept of "anthropo-eco-system" (focused on a qualitative assessment of the current state of individual components of the system) is presented. The theme of natural components inherent in the past decades is giving way to a modern view of system components of various origins. The question is raised about the need to rethink a number of theoretical foundations of urban planning in order to deepen their internal links with the socio-economic and cultural agenda.

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Rethinking Urban Forestry Through Resources Accessibility

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Urban Forest Tweeting: Social Media as More-Than-Human Communication in Tokyo’s Rinshinomori Park

Urban Forest Tweeting: Social Media as More-Than-Human Communication in Tokyo’s Rinshinomori Park

Transdisciplinary tools in modern urban planning theory (by the example of the concept of "urban vegetation")

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