Remix - Victor Dover on Street Trees

Описание: Street trees are an important but underappreciated part of our urban fabric. Street trees transform our experience of place, create local distinctiveness and add beauty to the urban environment. This remix is based on Victor Dover’s TEDx Coral Gables Talk    • Видео  , where he goes into depth on the topic, exploring how street trees affect us and what their significance is to our culture.

Dover, Kohl & Partners (@DoverKohl) is a town planning firm based in Coral Gables, Florida, with plans and codes that focus on smart growth, sustainability, and emphasizing that there does not have to be a trade-off between livability, economic prosperity, and environmental concerns. Dover-Kohl has an international portfolio of work ranging from county-wide projects covering thousands of acres to private development projects as small as 10 acres.

Victor Dover, FAICP, LEED-AP, CNU-A (@VictorDover) is a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and serves as principal-in-charge for Dover, Kohl & Partners. He has led more than 150 charrettes. Victor lectures widely around the nation on the topics of livable communities and sustainable development, and was national chair of the CNU from 2010 to 2012. He recently coauthored, with John Massengale, the bestselling book Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns (Wiley 2014) http://www.streets-book.com. Victor has been awarded the John Nolen Medal for contributions to urbanism, and is an adjuct faculty member at the University of Miami.