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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xi, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780300225785
  • 0300225784
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB436 .D84 2019
Contents:
pt. 1: New York City -- Tree doctor vs. tree butcher: standardized trees and the taylorization of New York City -- Street tree aesthetics: uniformity and variety along New York City streets -- Tree ladies: women, trees, and birds in New York City -- Planting civil rights: street tree plant-ins in New York City -- pt. 2: Berlin -- Burning trees: street trees in wartime and early Cold War Berlin -- Greening trees: replanting East and West Berlin -- Shades of red: art, action, and aerial photography for a green Berlin -- Unity and variety: Berlin's new urban forest -- Epilogue: street trees of the future.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves SB436 .D86 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800177164
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1: New York City -- Tree doctor vs. tree butcher: standardized trees and the taylorization of New York City -- Street tree aesthetics: uniformity and variety along New York City streets -- Tree ladies: women, trees, and birds in New York City -- Planting civil rights: street tree plant-ins in New York City -- pt. 2: Berlin -- Burning trees: street trees in wartime and early Cold War Berlin -- Greening trees: replanting East and West Berlin -- Shades of red: art, action, and aerial photography for a green Berlin -- Unity and variety: Berlin's new urban forest -- Epilogue: street trees of the future.

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