Completed in 2023, Triangle Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a new green space in a city striving to increase tree canopy by planting trees wherever it can, including along the industrial fringe of railyards and old garbage dumps, as well as in smaller fragments of neglected land between roads and buildings. To attain canopy cover and heat reduction goals, the city is planting thousands of trees, redesigning traffic flows to make room for more trees, maximizing tree planting in existing parks, and has passed a tree protection ordinance. It is hard to walk through the streets these days without encountering a newly planted tree, or signage about a future tree.
Meet landscape architects and city dwellers who are reimagining industrial leftovers as forests, one scrap of pavement at a time, in the Fall 2024 issue of Northern Woodlands.
Catherine Schmitt 