Student: Aaron Fellows
Graduation date: May 2016
Capstone type: Thesis (honors)
Capstone project:
The Amenity Value of Urban Trees and their Relationship to City Shape
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I examine the extent to which the values created by urban amenities shape the city around them, and to what extent their values are a product of their context. In doing so, I argue that a functionalist narrative of amenity value is overly simplistic. Considering the interrelationships between form and function, I offer, is a more useful approach. To support this notion, I focus on Portland, Oregon, and on trees as an urban amenity. In this respect, I investigate the extent to which trees function as an amenity in providing value for the city around them, and conceptualize the urban forest as a system of trees providing value throughout the city.