Plant, Lyndal
Evaluating Revealed Preferences for Street Tree Cover Targets: A Business Case for Collaborative Investment in Leafier Streetscapes in Brisbane, Australia
Many cities are seeking to optimise the ecosystem service benefits of urban trees by incorporating goals for increasing tree canopy cover into strategies that promote liveability and urban sustainability…
Adapting and applying evidence gathering techniques for planning and investment in street trees: A case study from Brisbane, Australia
Trees along footpath zones (or verges) grow on the “front-line” of urban forest ecosystems, increasingly recognised as essential to the quality of human life in cities. Growing so close to where residents live, work and travel, these street trees require careful planning and active management in order to balance their benefits against risks, liabilities, impacts and costs…
Adelaide Street Boulevard, Brisbane – 1999
Continuous tree trenches within new footpath extension from back of kerb within portions of 2 city blocks on both sides of street (Portions considered 6 existing trees along footpath outside City Hall)…
Engineered Spaces for Tree Growth in Paved Urban Areas – TREENET National Trials Project Update
As part of the Project goals to encourage the uptake of innovative engineered spaces for growing healthy, longlived trees in paved urban areas, TREENET now offers…
Brisbane: beautiful one day, perfect the next
The glorious weather of the sunshine state is one of the reasons why more than 16,000 people are currently moving to Brisbane every year, creating a need for at least 50,000 more dwellings by 2026 than allowed for in the current City Plan…
AVENUES OF HONOUR- BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL PROGRESS
In July 2007 Brisbane City Council published an Avenues of Honour Research Report about twenty four known memorial and commemorative tree planting sites within the Brisbane City Council area, in support of the national project. Among those planting sites are some of the earliest plantings in Australia undertaken in 1917 for local soldiers who lost their lives in World War One…
Are Your Urban Trees In The Climate Change And Sustainability Spotlight?
At the 8th Treenet Symposium in 2007 the recommendations and targets of the Brisbane Climate Change and Energy Action Plan were outlined. The Plan combines responses to the impacts of climate change for Brisbane with broader sustainability actions…
Street tree trials in Brisbane City Council
Trials of the first five of eleven indigenous tree species with potential for street tree use began in Brisbane last year…
Constructing root space for trees in Australian cities
Over the last 6 years Brisbane’s central business district has grown significantly greener and more pedestrian friendly,..