Revitalization of Cultural Values in Urban Landscape through Street Trees Design

Trees are one of the significant elements in urban areas that engage different professions in the planning, planting, and maintenance processes (Nadel et al., 1977). Despite a range of benefits of street trees (Cihanger, 2013), they could be anchored with two important aspects of value in urban areas; firstly, the urban ecological system such as atmosphere, temperature, and humidity (Horte and Eisenman, 2020), and secondly, the users’ perception of meanings of the place based on lived experience such as beauty, shading, and sense of place (Moughtin and Shirley, 2006; Evans, 2007). However, it is a common observation that municipalities prefer to select wood trees because of low-cost maintenance such as the cost of the cleaning, pruning, and decorating of plants in urban areas (GreenBlue, 2020) grounded on some general guidelines of arboriculture (Nadel et al., 1977). This process is resulted in replacing old trees with a set of woods sapling to adapt the green spaces to be fit for the size of the streets and the height of buildings and electricity power lines (Harris and Dines, 1998; Chatzidimitriou and Yannas, 2017).