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Authors and Affiliations

  1. OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art, UK

    Simon Bell

  2. Advisory Council for Public Housing, Spatial Planning and Environmental Management, The Netherlands

    Dominique Blom

  3. Department of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

    Maija Rautamäki

  4. Section of Landscape Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Cristina Castel-Branco

  5. The Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

    Alan Simson

  6. Department of Parks and Urban Landscapes, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, KVL, Denmark

    Ib Asger Olsen

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  1. woodSCAPE consult, Rytterager 74, 2791, Dragoer, Denmark

    Cecil Konijnendijk

  2. Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, KVL, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Kjell Nilsson , Thomas Randrup  & Jasper Schipperijn ,  & 

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Bell, S., Blom, D., Rautamäki, M., Castel-Branco, C., Simson, A., Olsen, I.A. (2005). Design of Urban Forests. In: Konijnendijk, C., Nilsson, K., Randrup, T., Schipperijn, J. (eds) Urban Forests and Trees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27684-X_7

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