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Non-profit association for the promotion of the cultural, natural, and landscape heritage represented by tree avenues

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Tree avenues

 

The French term ‘allée’ is used in many parts of Europe when referring to tree-lined ‘ways of passage’ in parks and gardens, in towns or in the country. In the context of landscapes, ‘avenue’ has the same meaning in English. ‘Avenues’ (or ‘tree avenues’) are thus ‘ways of passage’—paths, streets, and roads, but also canals—lined with rows of regularly spaced trees.

Avenues (in this sense) constitute an important cultural, natural, and landscape heritage in France, Europe, and beyond.

To know more about tree avenues, go to the "Quiz" and to the "Tree avenues and road safety" pages.

Our objectives

 

♦ To foster knowledge about  the cultural, natural, and landscape heritage that avenues represent ♦ Through information and education, to raise the awareness of the general public and professionals about the values of avenues ♦ To showcase the heritage of tree avenues and associated best practice ♦ To promote the economic activities and jobs avenues create ♦ To protect and renew existing avenues, and to develop new ones ♦ To support initiatives and protagonists helping to preserve tree avenues ♦

Who are we?

 

We are avenue lovers, determined to showcase this valuable heritage and convinced it is an asset for all of us. The board is made up of: Eric Mutschler, chair; Isabelle Kauffmann, secretary; Pierre Courbet, treasurer; Pierre Collin ; Qing Liu ; and Danièle Saget. Chantal Pradines, expert on avenues in France and in Europe, is executive director.

 

The international symposium "The essential beauty of tree avenues" is over. It ended with the Carcassonne declaration about tree avenues and road safety.

The presentations (slides and videos) are available online here.

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Do you want to know more about tree avenues? Here's a short list of useful books and articles:

Arnika (ed.) : Silniční stromořadí v české krajině. Koncepce jejich zachování, obnovy a péče o ně, 2010 (in Czech)

Brückmann, K. (ed.) : Avenues in Europe. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. 2015 74 p.

Bruun, M. : Alléer langs vei og gate. Historisk utvikling av i privateide anlegg og langs offentlig vei og gate. Statens vegvesen, 2012 (in Norwegian)

Flonneau, M. : Letter from French President Georges Pompidou to his Prime Minister, Jacques Chaban-Delmas. Routes-Roads n°348, 2010, p.93

Hrušková, M., Holečková, M., Větvička, V. et al. : Aleje. Krása ohroženého světa. Mladá fronta, 2012 (in Czech)

Johnston, M.: Street Trees in Britain - A history. Windgather Press, Oxbow books, 2017

Klemensová, M. (ed) : Aleje Moravskoslezského kraje - koncepce jejich zachování, obnovy a péče o ně. Arnika, 2015 (in Czech)

Lehmann, I., Rohde, M. (ed.) : Alleen in Deutschland. Bedeutung, Pflege, Entwicklung. Edition Leipzig, Seemann Henschel GmbH & Co KG, 2006 (in German)

Olsson, P., Jakobsson, Å. : Alléhandboken, Regionmuseet Kristianstad, 2005 (in Swedish)

Pradines, Ch. : Road infrastructures: tree avenues in the landscape in Landscape facets. Reflections and proposals for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. Editions du Conseil de l'Europe, 2012

Pradines, Ch. : Des continuités écologiques et identitaires : les "allées" d'arbres. Colloque ITTECOP (Infrastructures de Transports Terrestres, Ecosystèmes et Paysages), MEDDE, Sophia-Antipolis, 2013 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : Les arbres de bord de route et la sécurité routière. Congrès Belge de la Route, 2013 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : La route bordée d’arbres - entrée et sortie de la Grande Guerre. Rétro Tourisme - Automobilisme, Patrimoine & Transports, n° 2, 2014, p. 60-61 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : Les allées d’arbres, voies royales pour la biodiversité. La Revue Durable, n° 52, 2014, p. 58-61 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : Des allées dans le jardin Europe : les routes bordées d’arbres. Sites & Monuments, n° 222, 2015, p. 33-41(in French)

Pradines, Ch. : L'allée d'arbres : route touristique par excellence ? Rétro Tourisme - Automobilisme, Patrimoine & Transports, n° 3, 2015, p. 44-47 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : Nouvelle protection française des allées d’arbres. Revue Générale des Routes et de l'Aménagement, RGRA n° 948, 2017, p. 24-29 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : Forgiving roads: regulations threatening tree lined routes in Tree-lined Routes and the Linear Forest. A new vision of connected landscapes. Séminaire Treework Environmental Practice, 2015

Pradines, Ch. : La protection des alignements d'arbres qui bordent les voies de communication.L'article L350-3 du Code de l'environnement. 34ème ArboRencontre de Seine-et Marne, 2019 vignette PPT 1cm vignette film 1cm8490 (in French)

Pradines, Ch. : Legal Avenue Protection in France. Konference v Liberci - Systematická ochrana a obnova, 2019 vignette PPT 1cm vignette film 1cm8490 (in English)

Pradines, Ch.: Comprendre les allées, un impératif pour les gérer. in L'arbre urbain. État des connaissances, techniques de choix, de mise en oeuvre et de gestion. Actes du colloque international Histoire d’arbres, Mons, 2019, p. 13-18 vignette film 1cm8490 (in French)

Pradines, Ch.: Allées d’arbres en Europe et espèces des Listes rouges – De la connaissance à l’action. VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement [Online], Débats et Perspectives, 2020, https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/28154 (in French)

Pradines, Ch., Marmier, F. : Infrastructures. Alignements d'arbres et sécurité routière, Revue Générale des Routes et de l'Aménagement, RGRA n° 891, 2011, p. 55-63 (in French)

Rullmann, Ch., Pfeiffer, E. (ed.) : Ein Reiseführer für die Deutsche Alleenstraße, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Alleenstraße e.V., ADAC, SDW, 2012 (in German)

Tartaro, P., Kunz. S.: Etat des lieux et importance des allées et des paysages d’allées en Suisse, Fondation suisse pour la protection et l’aménagement du paysage, 2008 (in French)

Vanblaere, S. (ed.) : Handleiding voor het beheer van historische dreven en wegbeplantingen, Agentschap Onroerend Erfgoed, 2017 (in Flemish)

Worobiec, K.A., Lizewska, I. (ed.) : Aleje przydrozne. Historia, znaczenie, zagrozenie, ochrona. Stowarzyszenie WK Borussia, 2009 (in Polish)

 

  

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