Title Seeing trees : a history of street trees in New York city and Berlin / Sonja Dümpelmann

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest; PART ONE: NEW YORK CITY; 1. Tree Doctor vs. Tree Butcher: Standardized Trees and the Taylorization of New York City; 2. Street Tree Aesthetics: Uniformity and Variety along New York City Streets; 3. Tree Ladies: Women, Trees, and Birds in New York City; 4. Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-ins in New York City; PART TWO. BERLIN; 5. Burning Trees: Street Trees in Wartime and Early Cold War Berlin; 6. Greening Trees: Replanting East and West Berlin 7. Shades of Red: Art, Action, and Aerial Photography for a Green Berlin8. Unity and Variety: Berlin's New Urban Forest; Epilogue: Street Trees of the Future; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z Summary A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity's changing relationship with nature and the city Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann explains, this is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dümpelmann shows how New York City and Berlin began systematically planting trees to improve the urban climate during the nineteenth century, presenting the history of the practice within its larger social, cultural, and political contexts. A unique integration of empirical research and theory, Dümpelmann's richly illustrated work uncovers this important untold story. Street trees--variously regarded as sanitizers, nuisances, upholders of virtue, economic engines, and more--reflect the changing relationship between humans and nonhuman nature in urban environments. Offering valuable insights and frameworks, this authoritative volume will be an important resource for years to come Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2018) Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award - Nominee, 2020 Subject Trees in cities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History Trees in cities -- Germany -- Berlin -- History GARDENING -- Essays. GARDENING -- Reference. GARDENING -- Vegetables. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture. NATURE -- Plants -- Trees. Trees in cities Germany -- Berlin New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300240702 0300240708

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