{"id":2439,"date":"2020-08-21T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=2439"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:27:51","slug":"jimenez-sfttbos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/internship-impacts\/jimenez-sfttbos\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Tree Equity in Boston, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1174 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/raquel-jimenez\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Jimenez-Raquel-e1535390860343-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Raquel Jimenez headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Jimenez-Raquel-e1535390860343-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Jimenez-Raquel-e1535390860343-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Raquel Jimenez<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Assistant Professor, Universidad Andres Bello<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfttbos.org\/\"><span> Speak for the Trees, Boston<\/span><\/a>, Summer 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban trees make for healthy communities. In Boston, as in many cities, tree canopy is unequally distributed, such that some residents receive many health and environmental benefits while others receive very few. Raquel partnered with Speak for the Trees to identify areas in Boston where new trees could be planted in order to improve tree equity. She integrated remote sensing, land cover, and administrative data and accounted for available planting space, existing tree canopy, and neighborhood-level environmental and sociodemographic characteristics. Raquel created an interactive and publicly available online map that supports Speak for the Trees\u2019 outreach and education efforts as well as targeted tree-planting initiatives aimed at both increasing tree canopy and reducing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in access to benefits from urban trees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Deliverables<\/strong>:<span>\u00a0<\/span>Exploring tree equity in Boston: <a href=\"https:\/\/treeboston.org\/tree-equity\/\">A Map Series about trees and people<\/a>. Also see the Twitter campaign celebrating Raquel&#8217;s work by searching <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TreeEquityBoston?src=hashtag_click\">#TreeEquityBoston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2442\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2020\/08\/Raquel-Finding-Space.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"384\" class=\"wp-image-2442\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of Raquel&#8217;s Map Series focused on opportunities for tree plantings at the parcel level.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2441\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2020\/08\/Raquel-All-Maps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" class=\"wp-image-2441\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Six of Raquel&#8217;s maps, displaying the distribution tree canopy cover and other environmental and sociodemographic characteristics in Boston. Darker colors indicate higher levels of each mapped attribute. For example, in the top left map, darker green signifies greater tree canopy cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: Speak for the Trees, Boston, Summer 2020 Project Summary: Urban trees make for healthy communities. In Boston, as in many cities, tree canopy is unequally distributed, such that some residents receive many health and environmental benefits while others receive very few. Raquel partnered with Speak for the Trees to identify areas in Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16791,"featured_media":0,"parent":1881,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2439\/revisions\/6974"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}