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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.

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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