Schedule and Reading list

All readings available on Blackboard site unless directly linked from this page.

August 25-28: Field trip to New York City

Readings:            2007 Municipal Forest Resource Analysis

PlaNYC website

Million Tree Campaign Website .

September 1: no class (Labor Day)

September 8:

Course logistics and organization

Discussion of urban ecology an integrative framework and urban forestry as an application of that framework

Organize groups for first assignment and discuss

Readings: New York City Urban Tree Canopy Report (Grove et al.); Pickett et al. 2001, pp. 127-141.

September 15:

Review spatial typology exercise purpose and guidelines

Lab exercise using Baltimore data to help learn Arc Model Builder fundamentals

Each thematic group posts their bibliographies to the web along with a short summary document on the planned scope of their literature review by this day

Readings:  Nowak  and Dwyer 2007; McPherson et al. 2005; Nowak et al. 2002

September 22:

Lecture on Urban Tree Canopy Assessment and Forest Opportunity Spectrum (note change)

Short exercise using Urban Tree Canopy Assessment methods (tentative)

Readings: Raciti et al. Urban Tree Canopy Goal Setting

September 29

Student groups turn in literature reviews

Each group makes a 20 minute presentation on their literature review followed by discussion

October 6

Lecture and discussion on urban forest ecology and management with Mike Snyder

Readings: Zipperer et al. (1997) and Pauleit (2002)

October 13

Organization for prioritization project

In class brainstorming exercise to develop criteria for prioritization scheme

More review of data

Readings: Troy et al. (2007); review the “available data list” from Course Materials>>GIS Data in Blackboard.

October 20

Typology groups work in class with instructor assistance

Reading: Heynen et al (2003)

October 27

Typology groups work in class with instructor assistance

Reading: Wu et al. (2008)

November 3

Groups come to class with 3 variables created by neighborhood

Continue work on projects

November 10

Groups come to class with 6 variables created by neighborhood (look at other groups’ Wikis for ideas)

In class discussion of how to integrate and weight variables to develop ranking and how to use Model Builder in this exercise

November 17

Groups complete documentation and upload final neighborhood layer with rankings to Wiki

Groups present results in class

New groups organize for parcel level analysis; each group chooses a neighborhood

November 24: Thanksgiving break

December 1:

Groups come to class with 6 variables summarized by parcel

Groups work on integration and weighting in class

December 8:

Groups present results in class

 Bibliography

City of New York. 2007. PlaNYC: 2030. New York City Office of the Mayor.

Flores, A., S.T.A. Pickett, W.C. Zipperer, R.V. Pouyat, and R. Pirani. 1998. Adopting a modern ecological view of the metropolitan landscape: the case of a greenspace system for the New York City region. Landscape and Urban Planning 39:295-308.

Fortin, M. and M. Dale. 2005. Spatial Analysis: A guide for ecologists. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Galvin, M. F., J. M. Grove and J. P. M. O'Neil-Dunne (2006). A Report on Baltimore City's Present and Potential Urban Tree Canopy, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Forest Service: 17.

Groffman, P. M., D. J. Bain, L. E. Band, K. T. Belt, G. S. Brush, J. M. Grove, R. V. Pouyat, I. C. Yesilonis and W. C. Zipperer (2003). "Down by the Riverside: urban riparian ecology." Frontiers in Ecology 1(6): 315-321

Grove, J. M., W. R. Burch and S. T. A. Pickett (2005). Social Mosaics and Urban Forestry in Baltimore, Maryland. Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land. R. G. Lee and D. R. Field. Corvalis, Oregon State University Press: 248-273. 

Grove, J.M., A. Troy, J. O’Neil-Dunne, S. Pickett and M. Cadenasso. 2006. Multi-dimensional characteristics of urban households and its implications for the vegetative structure of urban ecosystems. Ecosystems. 9(4): 578-597.

Grove, J. M., J. P. M. O'Neil-Dunne, K. Pelletier, D. J. Nowak and J. Walton (2006). A Report on New York City's Present and Possible Urban Tree Canopy. Prepared for Fiona Watt, Chief of the Division of Forestry & Horticulture. New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service. UTC_NYC_001_07.pdf

Heynen, N.C. and Lindsey, G. 2003. Correlates of urban forest canopy cover. Public Works Management and Policy. 8(1):33-47.

Maantay, J. and J. Ziegler. 2006. GIS for the Urban Environment. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Malczewski, J. (2004). "GIS-based land-use suitability analysis: a critical overview." Progress in Planning 62: 3-65

McPherson, G., Simplson, J.R., Peper, P.J., Maco, S.E. and Xiao, Q. 2005. Municipal forest benefits and costs in five US Cities. Journal of Forestry. 103(8): 411-416

Nowak, D.J., D.E. Crane, and J.F. Dwyer. 2002. Compensatory value of urban trees in the United States. Journal of Arboriculture. 28(4):194-199.

Nowak, D.J. and J.F. Dwyer. 2007. Understanding the benefits and costs of urban forest ecosystems. In: Kuser, J.E., ed. Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast, 2nd ed. New York, NY: Springer: 25-46.

O’Neil-Dunne, J. and JM Grove. 2008. A report on the City of Burlington’s existing and possible urban tree canopy. Prepared for the City of Burlington and VT Dept of Forest, Parks & Recreation. 3pp.

Pickett, S. T. A., M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove, C. H. Nilon, R. V. Pouyat, W. C. Zipperer and R. Costanza (2001). "Urban ecological systems: Linking terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32: 127-157

Raciti, S., M. F. Galvin, J. M. Grove, J. P. M. O'Neil-Dunne, A. Todd and S. Clagett (2006). Urban Tree Canopy Goal Setting: A Guide for Chesapeake Bay Communities, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern State & Private Forestry, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, Md. UTC_Guide_Final_DRAFT.pdf

Svendsen, E.S. and Campbell, L.K. 2008. Urban ecological stewardship: understanding the structure, function and network of community-based urban land management. Cities and the Environment. 1(1): 1-31.

Troy, A. 2008. Geodemographic segmentation. In: Shenkar, S. and Xiong, H. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science. New York: Springer-Verlag. Pp.347-355.

Troy, A. J.M. Grove, J. O’Neil-Dunne, M. Cadenasso, and S. Pickett. 2007. Predicting opportunities for greening and patterns of vegetation on private urban lands. Environmental Management. 40(3): 394-412.

Troy, A. and J.M. Grove. Property Values, parks, and crime: a hedonic analysis in Baltimore, MD. Landscape and Urban Planning. 87:233-245.

Wu, C., Q. Xiao, and E.G. McPherson. 2008. A method for location potential tree-planting sites in urban areas: A case study of Los Angeles. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 7: 65-76

Zhou, W. A. Troy, and J.M Grove. 2008. Object-based land cover classification and change analysis in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area using multi-temporal high resolution remote sensing data. Sensors. 8: 1613-1636.