TY - GEN AU - Dumpelmann, Sonja TI - Seeing trees : a History of street trees in New York city and Berlin SN - 9780300225785 U1 - 635.977 PY - 2019/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Trees in cities -- Germany -- Berlin -- History KW - Trees in cities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History KW - Arbres dans les villes -- New York (E�tat) -- New York -- Histoire KW - Arbres dans les villes -- Allemagne -- Berlin -- Histoire KW - GARDENING -- Essays KW - GARDENING -- Reference KW - GARDENING -- Vegetables KW - SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Horticulture KW - NATURE -- Plants -- Trees KW - Trees in cities KW - Germany -- Berlin KW - New York (State) -- New York N1 - Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest 1 PART ONE NEW YORK C ITY 1.Tree Doctor vs. Tree Butcher: Standardized Trees and the Taylorization of New York City 21 2. Street Tree Aesthetics: Uniformity and Variety along New York City Streets 43 3. Tree Ladies: Women, Trees, and Birds in New York City 67 4. Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-ins in New York City 97 PART TWO. BERLIN 5. Burning Trees: Street Trees in Wartime and Early Cold War Berlin 125 6. Greening Trees: Replanting East and West Berlin 158 7. Shades of Red: Art, Action, and Aerial Photography for a Green Berlin 186 8. Unity and Variety: Berlin's New Urban Forest 218 Epilogue: Street Trees of the Future 242 List of Abbreviations 251 Notes 253 Index 301 ER -