Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin

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A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the city Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Seeing the Urban Forest Part One. New York City 1. Tree Doctor vs. Tree Butcher: Standardized Trees and the Taylorization of New York City 2. Street Tree Aesthetics: Uniformity and Variety along New York City Streets 3. Tree Ladies: Women, Trees, and Birds in New York City 4. Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-ins in New York City Part Two. Berlin 5. Burning Trees: Street Trees in Wartime and Early Cold War Berlin 6. Greening Trees: Replanting East and West Berlin 7. Shades of Red: Art, Action, and Aerial Photography for a Green Berlin 8. Unity and Variety: Berlin’s New Urban Forest Epilogue: Street Trees of the Future Abbreviations Notes Index