Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest 1
5. Part One. New York City
6. 1. Tree Doctor vs. Tree Butcher: Standardized Trees and the Taylorization of New York City 21
7. 2. Street Tree Aesthetics: Uniformity and Variety along New York City Streets 43
8. 3. Tree Ladies: Women, Trees, and Birds in New York City 67
9. 4. Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-ins in New York City 97
10. Part Two. Berlin
11. 5. Burning Trees: Street Trees in Wartime and Early Cold War Berlin 125
12. 6. Greening Trees: Replanting East and West Berlin 158
13. 7. Shades of Red: Art, Action, and Aerial Photography for a Green Berlin 186
14. 8. Unity and Variety: Berlin’s New Urban Forest 218
15. Epilogue: Street Trees of the Future 242
16. Abbreviations 251
17. Notes 253
18. Index 301