Seeing Trees : A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin / Sonja Dümpelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duempelmann, Sonja, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Trees in cities.

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

Germany--Berlin.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest

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

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 Berlin

8. Unity and Variety: Berlin's New Urban Forest

Epilogue: Street Trees of the Future

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24070-8

OCLC:

1076873287