Seeing trees a history of street trees in New York city and Berlin
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 Düm...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2019]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46474912*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
