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Roleofparksandgardenshasbecomemuchmore
important in view of ever-increasing population
of cities, particularly in developing countries.
Tangible and intangible benefits provided by
these green parks and patches of tree covers are
often taken for granted. Like other developing
economies, India is getting urbanized at a faster
pace. Generally, cities of developing countries
have lower per capita availability of urban
green spaces in comparison to the developed
countries
1
. Urban forestry studies, involving
technical and social science aspects are lacking
in developing countries, including India. From
the global perspective, although there are wide
variations both in coverage as well as per capita
availability of green spaces, cities renowned
for their fairly good urban green spaces often
have 20 m
2
urban green space per capita. Most
of the Indian cities, with the exceptions of
Gandhinagar and Chandigarh, are far behind in
per capita urban forest and tree cover availability
in comparison to European, Australian and USA
and Chinese cities.
Plantation in different sectors in Gandhinagar
Multi-row street plantation
