@article{THESIS,
      recid = {2788},
      author = {Joyce, Samuel},
      title = {Renters, Buildings and Scale: A Spatial Analysis of Urban  Tree Cover in Chicago},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {B.A.},
      address = {2020-04},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Trees play an important role in the function of urban  ecosystems. Beyond their role as a habitat for birds and  other animals, trees provide an array of essential  ecosystem services: stormwater management (Berland et al.  2017), temperature control (Coseo and Larsen 2014), air  pollution reduction (Nowak, Crane and Stevens 2006), and  carbon sequestration (Kendall and McPherson 2012), among  other ecosystem services. Recent research has focused on  the relationship between rentership rates and the  distribution of this environmental amenity in residential  areas. The landmark research on this subject is from  Perkins, Heynen and Wilson (2004), who examined a  tree-planting program in Milwaukee and found a  statistically significant negative correlation between  rentership rates and residential canopy cover at the census  tract level. Based on their review of the literature on  differences between renter and owner-occupied housing, the  authors suggest two factors that may produce this  relationship: residential mobility, as renters are  relatively transient and are unlikely to ever benefit from  the trees they plant, and housing maintenance, as it is  disadvantageous for renters to invest in improvements that  enhance property values and may result in rising rents.  Several other studies have investigated this relationship  and have similarly found an inverse correlation between  rentership and lower tree cover, in various cities at  various spatial scales (Heynen, Perkins and Roy 2006;  Landry and Chakraborty 2009; Koo et al. 2019). Although  tree cover is not necessarily a perfect proxy for the  ecosystem services provided by the urban forest, as Riley  and Gardiner (2020) found in their comparison of tree  canopy cover with a spatial measure of ecosystem service  dollars, it remains a readily available and widely-used  figure to assess the distribution of these benefits.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/2788},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.2788},
}