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How would a tree build the city? Such a question requires us to think in a rather unconventional way about urban planning and urban ecologies, not to mention the actual or potential agency of non-human actors and forces in both of those areas. Trees do not apparently urbanize, at least not in any immediately recognizable way, unless you liken climax forests to the dense aggregations of skyward buildings found in the downtown cores of today’s global cities. And so my question is more provocative than literal, especially because I ask it with a particular tree in mind: Ailanthus altissima.
Darren Patrick (Fri,) studied this question.