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Author: Stefano Boeri
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Imprint: Actar Publishers
ISBN: 9781948765589
ISBN 10: 1948765586
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 September 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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"""By increasing the connectivity between forests, gardens, and parks, and through the creation of ecological corridors, Green Obsession goes beyond simple design, bringing a transformative urban forestry strategy that represents a shifting perspective of the future of the global cityscape."" --Winner of the Inspire SDG Action Awards 2023"
"""The ""Green Obsession"" campaign launched by Stefano Boeri Architetti has been declared the winner of the SDG Action Awards, the most important recognition of projects that support the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. As part of the SDG Action Campaign, the United Nations set out to reward initiatives that ""mobilize, inspire and connect communities in order to promote positive change."" The winning initiative aims to help improve the relationship between nature and design by implementing the principles of urban forestation. Green Obsession represents a series of conferences, public programs and a book, ""Green Obsession: Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests"", published in 2021 and supported by the Graham Foundation."" --Arch Daily ""By increasing the connectivity between forests, gardens, and parks, and through the creation of ecological corridors, Green Obsession goes beyond simple design, bringing a transformative urban forestry strategy that represents a shifting perspective of the future of the global cityscape."" --Winner of the Inspire SDG Action Awards 2023"
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Architect and urban planner, Stefano Boeri has been Professor at the Politecnico in Milan and visiting Professor at several international universities, including Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD), the Strelka Institute in Moscow, the Berlage Institute in the Netherlands and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. In Shanghai, he is Director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University: a post-doctoral research program that explores the future of contemporary metropolises under the perspectives of biodiversity and urban forestry. In November 2018, he was Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee for the first World Forum on Urban Forests, organized in Mantua together with the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization, UN). In 2019 he presented in New York the Great Green Wall of Cities project, developed with FAO, C40, UN-Habitat e other international research organizations, on the occasion of the UN Climate Action Summit 2019. Author of several books and publications, Stefano Boeri was Councilor for Culture in Milan (from 2011 to 2013) and in February 2018 he was appointed President of Fondazione Triennale Milano, a major international cultural institution based in Milan that produces exhibitions, conferences and events dedicated to architecture, art, design, fashion, cinema, and graphics.
