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Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
by Sonja Dümpelmann
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- Hardcover
- first
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- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0300225784
- ISBN 13
- 9780300225785
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Brooktondale, New York, United States
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About This Item
First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 7.5" x 10.5", is bound in dark brown paper spine and boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xi/318 pages.
"Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann explains, the planting of street trees in cities to serve specific functions is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dümpelmann shows how New York City and Berlin began systematically planting trees to improve the urban climate during the nineteenth century, presenting the history of the practice within its larger social, cultural, and political contexts.
A unique integration of empirical research and theory, Dümpelmann's richly illustrated work uncovers this important untold story. Street trees—variously regarded as sanitizers, nuisances, upholders of virtue, economic engines, and more—reflect the changing relationship between humans and nonhuman nature in urban environments. Offering valuable insights and frameworks, this authoritative volume will be an important resource for years to come."
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- Palimpsest Scholarly Books
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- 2872
- Title
- Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
- Author
- Sonja Dümpelmann
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300225784
- ISBN 13
- 9780300225785
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Urbanism, Architecture
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