330 Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 2008. 34(5):330–331. Arboricultural Abstracts ARBORICULTURAL ABSTRACTS LAYOUT AND COMPOSITION OF HOUSE-EMBRACING TREES IN AN ISLAND FENG SHUI VILLAGE IN OKINAWA, JAPAN Bixia Chen, Yuei Nakama, and Genji Kurima A Feng Shui village landscape, which embodies the symbiosis of nature and man, might be re-evaluated as an ideal landscape model in East Asia. Ho:go is one essential word for a Feng Shui village in Ryukyu Islands. The literal meaning of Ho:go is to embrace and protect by forest planting in order to retain the living energy. Ho:go also refers to a forest belt that encircles a house, a village, several neighboring villages, or the coastline, and is called House Ho:go (habitat-embracing forest), Village Ho:go, District Ho:go, and Coastline Ho:go, respectively. How- ever, such Feng Shui village landscapes have disappeared rap- idly since Word War II because of the changing life styles. In order to preserve the traditional Feng Shui village landscape, our primary research focus concerns the actual structure, manage- ment, and regeneration of house-embracing Garcinia subellip- tica Merr. trees. We chose to survey the two best preserved villages of Tonaki Island and Bise village in northern Okinawa Island. We reproduced the actual distribution and sizes of house- embracing G. subelliptica trees by HO CAD software. We found tree lines were much thicker in the borderline of the village, in particular, those either facing the coast or standing in the north. In contrast, there was usually one tree line inside the village. The surveyed G. subelliptica trees on Tonaki Island were much smaller than those in Bise Village. More demand of G. subel- liptica trees for timber use in this small isolated island and better maintenance might be assumed to be the reasons for the differ- ence in tree height between the two surveyed villages. Thus, proper maintenance in terms of cutting and cleaning are neces- sary to preserve house-embracing G. subelliptica tree lines in a traditional Feng Shui village. A traditional village landscape might also serve purposes for forest tourism and environmental education. (Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 2008. 7(1):53– 61) WHAT DO FORESTERS THINK ABOUT URBAN FORESTRY, URBAN PEOPLE, AND CITIES? Robert M. Ricard and Maureen H. McDonough Urban residents affect forest policy and hence forest manage- ment decisions and outcomes. In addition, urban forestry has become more visible, integrated, and influential in the Society of American Foresters (SAF). However, little is known about what foresters think urban people know about forestry, what emphasis foresters believe should be placed on urban forestry compared with traditional forestry, and what foresters think about the pur- poses of urban forestry. Results of a nationwide mail survey of SAF members suggest that urban forestry is well accepted as a community of interest by respondents, that respondents lean more toward loving cities than hating them, and that respondents believe urban people understand some specific forestry objec- ©2008 International Society of Arboriculture tives, such as the link between forests and wood products, but not many others. (Journal of Forestry 2007. 105(6):285–292) GIS-BASED GREENERY EVALUATION ON CAMPUS MASTER PLAN Nyuk Hien Wong and Steve Kardinal Jusuf In the previous study, it was found that urban heat island inten- sity in National University of Singapore (NUS) campus as high as 4°C at around 13:00. It is also concluded that the presence of dense greenery in NUS environment is very important in keeping low ambient temperature. National University of Singapore has announced its new master plan in 2005, entitled NUS Master Plan 2005. Many new buildings will be built and in some areas existing greenery will be removed. Geographical Information System (GIS) was use to evaluate the greenery condition. It was found that the greenery rate of NUS Master Plan 2005 will drop by about 3% from 55.10% of NUS current condition to 52.31%. In order to have a sustainable environment, the greenery condi- tion should be at least maintained at the same rate or even make it better. For this purpose, potential of increasing greenery area by rooftop greenery application was also done. The target is to maintain the green rate of different zones at the same rate with current condition. In total, there will be more than 56% new buildings in NUS Master Plan 2005. Therefore, there is a good opportunity to plan and introduce the rooftop greenery or vertical greenery since in the early design stage. The ENVI-met simula- tion predicts that the ambient temperature in NUS environment will increase about 1°C when NUS Master Plan 2005 is com- pleted. It is due to the reduction of greenery rate. (Landscape and Urban Planning 2008. 84(2):166–182) CULTURE, PLACE AND URBAN GROWTH IN THE U.S. SOUTH Cassandra Y. Johnson and Wayne C. Zipperer People’s connection to land is an important contributor to iden- tity in traditional southern society. In small southern communi- ties, to know where someone lives is to know who someone is because place assigns biography. Studies have investigated the physical and economic implications of landscape change in the South, but comparatively little research focuses on the impacts to culture of urban growth. We consider how sense of place (as an indicator of culture) may be impacted, over time, by physical and structural changes in a locale. This point of departure examines the temporal dimension of sense of place, or how place percep- tions may vary as familiar places and practices are altered by landscape moderations. We review the literature on sense of place and changing Southern landscapes and also offer a con- ceptual framework for analyzing sense of place over the long- term. (Urban Ecosystems 2008. 10(4):459–474)
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