Landscape Matters Issue 4 FINAL - Flipbook - Page 29
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The US site Healthy Streets, promoting the embedding of public health considerations in street
design https://www.healthystreets.com
Clearly one way to make healthy cities is to have
streets which are safe for children to cycle in, so
the Dutch Cycling Embassy is a guide to how to
make cities and a whole country safe for cycling
https://www.dutchcycling.nl/en/
Of course one aspect of city planning is making
spaces cooler; trees are critical to this, and every
city should have a survey of its trees; London’s
Tree Canopy Map1.
World wide coverage of landscape architecture is
what the Land Library is about so for schemes
in Singapore and India and above all planetary
biodiversity see www.thelandlibrary.com
Landscape is a palimpsest and the development
and change in British landscapes can be seen in
the historical Ordnance Survey maps published by the National Library of Scotland as six
inch (1:10,560) maps of England and Wales 18421952 and Scotland 1843-1882. https://maps.nls.uk/
geo/find
Sentinel is the European Space Agency’s planetary monitoring programme and has thematic
areas covering land and marine monitoring, the
atmosphere, emergency management, security
and climate change https://sentinels.copernicus.
eu/web/sentinel/home
On climate change, how about Bill Gates’s online
publication focussed on the technology fixed
to reach net zero: Cipher News https://www.
ciphernews.com
https://www.london.gov.
uk/what-we-do/environment/
parks-green-spaces-and-biodiversity/trees-and-woodlands/
tree-canopy-cover-map
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Finally, a podcast worth a listen is James Corner’s Landscapes of the Mind on BBC Radio 4,
considering how Covid has raised the importance
of urban landscapes for mental health https://
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00100d8
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