Duempelmann, Sonja,

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

Licensed

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


History.

635.977 / DUM/S