TY - GEN AU - Gandy, Matthew Ed. AU - Jasper, Sandra Ed. TI - Botanical city SN - 9783868595192 U1 - 577.56 PY - 2020/// CY - Berlin PB - Jovis KW - Urban plants KW - Urban ecology N1 - Contents The city as a botanical field 6 Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper Part 1 Histories and taxonomies 16 Signs of life: interview with Herbert Sukopp 18 The metabolic city and the city of biotopes: Paul Duvigneaud and Herbert Sukopp 22 Urban granaries, planetary thresholds Nigel Clark 30 The flora of bombed areas (an allegorical key) 38 Seth Denizen Vegetation as testimony: botanical traces of the urban past Moritz von der Lippe 46 The curious disappearance of the Ennore Creek Bhavani Raman 54 Phoenix canariensis in Lisbon's new ecologies: a postphenomenological tracing of a palm tree in a disused gasworks Daniel Paiva 62 Urban plants and colonial durabilities Henrik Ernstson 71 Ailanthus altissima, or the botanical afterlives of European power Bettina Stoetzer 82 Seeing, surveying, and sorting urban trees: the 1970s street tree project in Dresden Sonja Dumpelmann 91 Vertical ecologies: the balcony biotopes of Berlin Dorothee Brantz 100 Drying greens, commons, and the possibilities of the botanical (in one quiet corner of London) 107 Marcus Nyman Part 2 Botanizing the asphalt 120 The flight of seeds Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra 122 Dandelions at work: a street corner tale of ecosystem services Alexandra R. Toland 131 Plants in the urban night Bergit Arends 139 Toxic tour: Houston's environmental apartheid and institutional liberation 146 T J Demos Queering the transect Matthew Gandy 161 Walking with plants: disrupting the material logics of degrado at the banks of Turin's Stura river Lucilla Barchetta 170 Following mosquitoes into an urban forest Nida Rehman Rhizome city: tracing knotweed through the soils of Brussels Livia Cahn 185 196 Part 3 The art of urban flora 196 Lois Weinberger Zheng Bo Mona Caron Yan Wang Preston Uriel Orlow Part 4 Experiments in non-design Framing urban landscapes: interview with Susanne Hauser 216 Acoustic botany: listening to nature in a former airfield Sandra Jasper 221 There life in dead wood: tracing a more-than human urbanity in the spontaneous nature of Gothenburg 229 Mathilda Rosengren From undead commodities to lively labourers : (re)valuing vegetal life, reclaiming the power to design-with plants 237 Marion Ernwein Tracing the urban pastoral in Tallinn: Leo Marx, Karl Marx, and urban political aesthetics Maros Krivy Tokyo ecology: the Akabane Nature Observation Park 253 Kumiko Kiuchi Red leaves 266 Suili Xiao Part 5 Cartographic imaginations 272 Urban plants: a window on how ecology becomes evolution 274 Peter Del Tredici Discovering and mapping urban plants Mark Spencer 282 Mapping the urban flora of Berlin Birgit Seitz 293 Nature is for everyone: investigating attitudes to urban biodiversity Leonie Fischer 300 Urban cemeteries in Berlin and beyond: life in the grounds of the dead 305 Ingo Kowarik Contributors 314 Acknowledgments 322 ER -