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Ms. Indigo Catton
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0 GIS
0 Remote Sensing
0 Urban Forestry
0 Remote sensing & GIS applications in Forestry
0 Remote sensing (both satellite and drones)

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Remote Sensing specialist for forestry and natural resource management

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Published: 12 April 2021 in Land
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Municipal leaders are pursuing ambitious goals to increase urban tree canopy (UTC), but there is little understanding of the pace and socioecological drivers of UTC change. We analyzed land cover change in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) from 1970–2010 to examine the impacts of post-industrial processes on UTC. We interpreted land cover classes using aerial imagery and assessed historical context using archival newspapers, agency reports, and local historical scholarship. There was a citywide UTC increase of +4.3 percentage points. Substantial UTC gains occurred in protected open spaces related to both purposeful planting and unintentional forest emergence due to lack of maintenance, with the latter phenomenon well-documented in other cities located in forested biomes. Compared to developed lands, UTC was more persistent in protected open spaces. Some neighborhoods experienced substantial UTC gains, including quasi-suburban areas and depopulated low-income communities; the latter also experienced decreasing building cover. We identified key processes that drove UTC increases, and which imposed legacies on current UTC patterns: urban renewal, urban greening initiatives, quasi-suburban developments, and (dis)investments in parks. Our study demonstrates the socioecological dynamism of intra-city land cover changes at multi-decadal time scales and the crucial role of local historical context in the interpretation of UTC change.

ACS Style

Lara Roman; Indigo Catton; Eric Greenfield; Hamil Pearsall; Theodore Eisenman; Jason Henning. Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City. Land 2021, 10, 403 .

AMA Style

Lara Roman, Indigo Catton, Eric Greenfield, Hamil Pearsall, Theodore Eisenman, Jason Henning. Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City. Land. 2021; 10 (4):403.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Lara Roman; Indigo Catton; Eric Greenfield; Hamil Pearsall; Theodore Eisenman; Jason Henning. 2021. "Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City." Land 10, no. 4: 403.