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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duempelmann, Sonja, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

John Dixon Hunt Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trees in cities--New York (State)--New York--History.

Trees in cities.

Trees in cities--Germany--Berlin--History.

History.

Germany--Berlin.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Dixon Hunt Fund.

ISBN:

9780300240702

0300240708

Publisher Number:

99984040365

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.