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Tung, Gurtej Singh

Vancouver’s Greenest City 2020 Action Plan aims to plant 150,000 new trees by 2020. Given space limitation on public lands, such as parks, a significant portion of this planting will have to occur on private property. In order to encourage this goal amongst Vancouver residents, it is worthwhile to know which types of trees people want to plant, where they want to plant them and, generally speaking, if there are any differences in planting preferences based on age, existing neighbourhood tree canopy and built form. The WeTree exercise was conducted at two community centres, one in east Vancouver and the other on the west side of the city. Patrons voted for their desired tree, out of four distinct trees, based on the question ‘what tree would you plant at home’. Each ballot asked for age, postal code and reason for selecting the chosen tree. Results: •Aesthetics, fruit/flowers and size were the main reasons for selecting specifc trees. •Existing tree canopy and number of detached houses have, seemingly, no impact on tree selection as evident by the similarity of overall preferences in east and west Vancouver. •Simple and easy ’30 second ballots’ proved to be a fun and engaging method to capture the tree preferences of a large sample size. •In both the west and east parts of Vancouver the most popular tree was the Japanese maple followed by the Apple and Magnolia and the least popular was the Douglas-fir.

Graduating Project

eng

2017-02-27

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60722

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/