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Bosco verticale, Green in the city, Milano (Chris Barbalis, Unsplash)

By 2050, 2.5 billion new urban dwellers will face environmental and health crises. ‘Treetopia’ transforms trees into essential urban infrastructure, as demonstrated by Milan's Bosco Verticale and Vienna's Hundertwasserhaus. Studies show that urban forests save more than £1 billion in healthcare costs, improve mental and physical well-being and provide sustainable building materials, reversing the global decline in tree cover.

The 21st century is the urban century. It has been forecast that urban areas across the world will have expanded by more than 2.5 billion people by 2050.The scale and speed of urbanisation has created significant environmental and health problems for urban dwellers. These problems are often made worse by a lack of contact with the natural world.With research group the Tree Urbanistas, I have been considering and debating how to solve these problems. By 2120, it is only through re-establishing contact with the natural world, particularly trees, that cities will be able to function, be viable an

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