CHAPTER GUIDE: 6.0 STREETSCAPE ELEMENTS

Trees and landscaping, lighting, pedestrian furnishings, paving, and other ELEMENTS fi ll the spaces of the STREETSCAPE with life, light, color, and texture and make a street a comfortable, interesting, and usable space for people. GUIDE: STREETSCAPE Urban Stormwater Management Paving Site Utilities and DrivewaysStreetscape ELEMENTS are those functional and aesthetic items in pedestrian spaces that provide amenity and utility to pedestrians and other street ELEMENTS discussed in this CHAPTER include:Urban Forest: All plantings in the right-of-way, including street trees, understory planting (ground landscaping), and above-ground planting (planter boxes and hanging baskets)Stormwater Management Tools.

’feng shui’. Other ethnic groups place particular value on certain tree species and would like to see them planted in their neigh-borhoods. Th e San Francisco Friends of the Urban Forest have been sensitive to the concerns of diff erent cultural groups and have made contact with practitioners of ‘feng shui’ and others for

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