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  1. Community greens (Ecology 🏞️)

    Community Greens, sometimes referred to as backyard commons, urban commons, or pocket neighborhoods, are shared open green spaces on the inside of city blocks, created either when residents merge backyard space or reclaim underutilized urban land such as vacant lots and alleyways. These shared spaces are communally used and managed only by ...

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    #CommunityGreens #Parks #Ecology #Landscape #CommonLand #LandscapeHistory

  2. On my way to the BES #Trees4CBP symposium in Canterbury to present ‘Revealing cultural histories of Scottish woodlands: for restoration and engaging communities’ and to listen to the great range of speakers.
    Good to see a few other speakers from Scotland in the programme.
    #thicktrunktuesday
    #dendrochronology
    #Mull
    #Scotland
    #landscapehistory
    #landscapearchaeology
    #ReforestingScotland

  3. My script for #AncientWoodland (emphasis on Welsh cases) based on local surveys 2014 to 2019. One of my conclusions was that landscape often classed as Welsh Ancient Woodland was often post-industrial woodland or land severely damaged by coal mining even though the coal mining or iron activities may have ended in the seventeenth century or earlier enabling the current recovered woodland to present as Ancient. #HistoricalGeography #IndustrialArchaeology #LandscapeHistory #PostIndustrialWoodland

  4. @Nyddfwch I too love that book. Here are two related images that I have used to help first-year students imagine life during a time in which, if you wanted something done, you had to do it yourself (ie, no machines). Food = fuel.

    You will know (but for the benefit of others), these men are all raising water from their flooded mines.

    PS Pls post info about your tree work. Thank you.

    #HistoricalGeography #ArchivalResearch #Energy #EnergySlave #LandscapeHistory #EnvHist