Seeing trees : A history of street trees in New York City and Berlin / [electronic resource]
Sonja Dümpelmann.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.
- e-book contains 318 pages illustrations (some color), maps ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter
Publicly Available i Contents
Publicly Available vii Acknowledgments
Publicly Available ix Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest
Licensed 1 PART ONE. NEW YORK CITY 1. Tree Doctor vs. Tree Butcher: Standardized Trees and the Taylorization of New York City
Licensed 21 2. Street Tree Aesthetics: Uniformity and Variety along New York City Streets
Licensed 43 3. Tree Ladies: Women, Trees, and Birds in New York City
Licensed 67 4. Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-ins in New York City
Licensed 97 PART TWO. BERLIN 5. Burning Trees: Street Trees in Wartime and Early Cold War Berlin
Licensed 125 6. Greening Trees: Replanting East and West Berlin
Licensed 158 7. Shades of Red: Art, Action, and Aerial Photography for a Green Berlin
Licensed 186 8. Unity and Variety: Berlin’s New Urban Forest
Licensed 218 Epilogue: Street Trees of the Future
Licensed 242 Abbreviations
Licensed 251 Notes
Licensed 253 Index
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A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the city
9780300240702 Eur 97.95
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300240702 DOI:
Trees in cities--History.--New York (State)--New York Trees in cities--History.--Germany--Berlin Trees in cities.
Germany--Berlin. New York (State)--New York.
Industrial Chemistry Green and Sustainable Technology