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266 Box 11.1: Case Study City of Trees Jessica Thompson, Health and Well-being Lead, City of Trees, UK The City of Trees (City of Trees 2018) movement based in Greater Manchester is one of the UK’s Community Forestry (England’s Community Forests 2018) organisations and forms part of the Northern Forest concept (Braby 2018). City of Trees represents urban forestry, a term widely used in the USA and Northern Europe to define the ‘art, science and technology’ in relation to trees and plants that exist within an urban setting as well as the “physiological, sociological, economic, and aesthetic benefits trees provide society” (Konijnendijk et  al. 2006). In its physical form, the urban forest includes all aspects of green infrastructure found within the urban setting at varying spatial scales, e.g. the mosaic of street trees, woodlands, parks, orchards, gardens, incidental greenspaces, etc. City of Trees advocates a natu- ral capital approach to the benefits of green infrastructure, described as eco- system services (Natural England 2009), such as biodiversity, climate change adaptation, recreation, health and well-being. City of Trees strives to be a public facing movement. A team delivers cam- paigns and community engagement programmes, such as Green Streets (a neighbourhood-greening programme that facilitates community-based street tree planting, Fig.  11.4), community orchard creation and pocket woodland Fig. 11.4 A neighbourhood greening programme that facilitates community-based street planting. (Photo credit: City of Trees) (continued) P. A. Cook et al.