ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some of the issues posed by contemporary urban landscapes and urban design, and highlights the role played by trees and urban forestry in engaging with these issues. It also considers the role that urban forestry has played in influencing some of the beneficial changes that have taken place in landscape and urban planning and design, with urban embellishments such as model villages. Other urban concepts that incorporate an urban forestry approach to urban greening have emerged more recently, such as landscape urbanism, biophilic cities, biomimicry and green urbanism, and these concepts are further considered. At the heart of responsive urban forestry lies a belief in the quadripartite approach of research, experimentation, practice and reflection. This is a 'big idea', and it may be one of the 'big ideas' that will be part of the driving force behind the twenty-first century landscape and urbanism perspectives in all the cities, whether they are in Europe or elsewhere.
