A Study for Semantic Evaluation of Street Trees

The decline of green areas due to rapid urbanization has brought many problems to our cities. In order to overcome these problems, some systems enabling green continuity in cities are being studied. In these studies, ideas are carried out, concepts are discussed and projects and applications are put into practice to produce some approaches including greenways, urban forests, urban parks, considered as parts of these systems. Street trees occupy an important place within this green-area scenario. In this study, the contribution of street trees to city, citizens and open green-area system is investigated. For this purpose, students from the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Forest Engineering (15 students from each department) have evaluated some pictures of the city. Some analyses have been done on the data obtained through this assessment. Results showed that street trees create images that are interesting, full, continuous, effective and with identity and according to the result of non parametric correlation analysis performed on the data of implementation study, significant relationships has been identified between these parameters