How can we intervene in cities so that nature plays a leading role in urban well-being? Preserving forests and reforesting cities requires radically incorporating carbon flow and biodiversity into cities as a strategy for creating resilient microclimates. This session proposes reflections on how to configure multifunctional and multi-scale urban forests, constituting green infrastructure networks capable of intensifying essential ecosystem services – such as primary production, nutrient cycling and soil formation. The absence of these services in cities results in heat islands, floods and disasters, the result of the gap between urban planning and ecology. Bringing these two fields together is essential, considering perspectives on planning and managing urban vegetation and soil throughout the open space system. The goal is to inspire new paradigms of urban afforestation that promote well-being and strengthen climate resilience by integrating the forest above and the forest below.
Presentations:
Views and reflections for the renaturalization of the territory and landscapes of Iquitos
Moses Porras
Tree planting in climate mitigation and adaptation in cities: new paradigms
Rubens do Amaral
Manifesto-Shelter: Microarchitecture for Major Disruptions
Clarisse Jacobi Brahim do Vale, Giulia Teixeira da Silva Botelho, João Victor Mello Mansur Moreira and Pedro Barbosa de Souza
Urban permaculture: an essay on city transformation
Sabrina Hennemann
Urban forest acupuncture: housing as climate and community repair
Luciana Varkulja and Nastassja Lafontant
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