#urbanforestry — Public Fediverse posts

Which Calgary neighborhoods are best built to withstand summer heatwaves? 🌳☀️

To measure structural climate resilience across the city, I conducted a spatial analysis of 193 established residential communities, calculating the Solid-to-Tree Ratio—comparing bare artificial surfaces (asphalt, concrete, rooftops) directly against total tree canopy area.

Here are the Top 10 most shade-rich and climate-resilient communities in Calgary:
🟢 Queens Park Village — 0.3 (Just 0.3 ha of hard surface for every 1 ha of canopy!)
🟢 Discovery Ridge — 0.5
🟢 Roxboro — 0.5
🟢 Wildwood — 0.6
🟢 Rideau Park — 0.7
🟢 Medicine Hill — 0.8
🟢 Upper Mount Royal — 0.8
🟢 Crestmont — 0.9
🟢 Elbow Park — 0.9
🟢 Shaganappi — 0.9

👇 The full interactive dataset and study are here:
https://www.datastory.org.ua/calgarys-microclimatic-anatomy-what-lies-beneath-the-citys-green-appearance/

#UrbanAnalytics #GeospatialData #RemoteSensing #GIS #UrbanForestry #CityPlanning #Calgary #DataScience #Microclimate #MachineLearning #GreennessOfCalgary #RStats #FOSSGIS

View of the urban forest in Arcata, California. Learn more at https://www.cityofarcata.org/ and https://www.cityofarcata.org/190/City-Forests Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #urbanforestry #urbanforest #forest #trees #shrubs #photography #arcata #california #planning #city #government #cornus #dogwood

View of the urban forest in Sisters, Oregon. Learn more at https://www.ci.sisters.or.us/media/17216 and https://www.deschuteslandtrust.org/news/blog/co-trees Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #urbanforestry #urbanforest #forest #trees #photography #sisters #oregon #planning #city #government #cone #conifer

@JoeriMorpurgo on LinkedIn: #biodiversity #urban #ecosystems #garden

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joerimorpurgo_biodiversity-urban-ecosystems-activity-7256995994402222080-seER?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

> Our article on #biodiversity in #urbanfacadegarden just got #published in #UrbanForestry and #UrbanGreening! 4 Take-aways 👇: 1️⃣ 🐞 🐛 The smallest #gardens…

OnlineFirst - "Greening the gentrification process: Insights and engagements from practitioners" by Jessica Quinton, Lorien Nesbitt, Daniel Sax, and Leila Harris:

#greengentrification #environmentaljustice #urbanforestry
#urbangreening

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486241236281