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  • Formaat: Hardback, 432 pages, kõrgus x laius: 254x178 mm, kaal: 1016 g, 12 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 151 Halftones, black and white; 157 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2022
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367516292
  • ISBN-13: 9780367516291
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 432 pages, kõrgus x laius: 254x178 mm, kaal: 1016 g, 12 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 151 Halftones, black and white; 157 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2022
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367516292
  • ISBN-13: 9780367516291
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"This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge amount about the nature of modern life, of social change and political conflict. The work first provides different historical perspectives on street trees and politics, celebrating diversity in different cultures. A second section discusses street tree values, policy and management, addressing more contemporary issues of their significance and contribution to our environment, both physically and philosophically. It explores cultural idiosyncrasies and those from the point of view of political economy, particularly challenging the neo-liberal perspectives that continue to dominate political narratives. The final section provides case studies of community engagement, civil action, and governance. International case studies bring together contrasting approaches in areas with diverging political directions or intentions, the constraints of laws and the importance of people power. By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach this book produces an information base for academics, practitioners, politicians and activists alike, thus contributing to a fairer political debate that helps to promote more democratic environments that are sustainable, equitable, comfortable, and healthier"--

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance, revealing a huge amount about the nature of modern life, social change and political conflict which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges.

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"Deftly weaving together narratives of politics and landscape, this timely book brings a fresh, international perspective to the complex and contested subject of urban trees." Tom Williamson, Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia, UK



"The book provides unique insights into street trees and the broader politics that shape our cities. A compelling collection of case studies from different points in history and varied places around the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in urban nature or the politics of urban spaces." Tenley Conway, Professor, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada

"Decision-makers, technicians, designers, and tree lovers will all benefit from this manifesto on the political dimension of urban trees. Explored within the perspective of long history as well as through recent dissensions around the world, this learned and sensitive work offers a challenging perspective, and enticement to conserve roadside planting as cultural heritage." Stéphanie de Courtois, Associate professor at Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles, France

"Street trees not only beautify the cityscape, but city dwellers also often build an emotional bond with them. They play a central role in the discussion about biodiversity and adaptation to climate change. This book provides background information and helps to further develop this crucial component of urban green space in a forward-looking manner." Norbert Kühn, Professor, Head of the Department of Vegetation Technology and Planting Design, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

"Never before have so many authors contributed to a single volume focusing on the politics of street trees, taking perspectives from many different countries." Mark Johnston, review in Garden History

Acknowledgements xi
Contributors xiii
Foreword xxi
David Blunkett
The Street Tree Replacement Programme xxiii
Introduction 1(14)
Jan Woudstra
Camilla Allen
PART 1 Historic perspectives on street trees and politics
15(134)
1 The `Right to Plant': roadside tree planting in the Netherlands
17(12)
Jan Woudstra
2 `Trees even in their very roads': mid-seventeenth-century English perspectives on trees, streets and politics
29(14)
Felicity Stout
3 Green lines of power? the Apprentice Boys' trees and the walls of Derry/Londonderry
43(12)
Finola O'Kane
4 Progress and economics: planting roadside fruit trees in the German states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
55(14)
Sylvia Butenschon
Thomas Thranert
5 Sylvan strife: tree conflicts in Victorian and Edwardian towns
69(14)
Paul Elliott
6 Drivers of street tree species selection: the case of London planetrees in Philadelphia
83(14)
Lara A. Roman
Theodore S. Eisenman
7 A `silent' activist for trees: the life and legacy of Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel in Mysore, India
97(13)
Gert Groening
8 A broken covenant: the creation and desecration of Sheffield's living memorials
110(13)
Camilla Allen
9 Roads of modernisation: street tree planting in the Republic of China (1911-1949)
123(12)
Yishi Liu
Jan Woudstra
10 Japanese cherry pride on foreign ground
135(14)
Wybe Kuitert
PART 2 Street tree values, policy and management
149(126)
11 Highway tree policies and management: an historical perspective of ownership and responsibility
151(14)
Jan Woudstra
Camilla Allen
12 Street trees matter, so what's the matter with street trees? how the ecosystem services and disservices of street trees can and should influence attitudes
165(13)
Ross Cameron
13 Emerging challenges and developments with respect to street trees in compact cities
178(11)
Kai Wang
Jian Hang
Julian C.R. Hunt
14 The opportunity to interact with the urban forest is a human right
189(11)
Alan Simson
15 What street trees mean: memory, beauty and hospitality
200(14)
John Miller
16 Climate change, forest fires, and evolving street tree policies in Porto, Portugal
214(13)
Claudia Fern Andes
Catarina Teixeira
Isabel Martinho Da Silva
17 The political economy of street trees
227(12)
John Henneberry
Philip Catney
18 The economics of street trees: why we so often can't see the wood for the trees
239(11)
Philip B. Whyman
19 Roadside trees and traffic safety policies
250(12)
Jan Woudstra
20 Streets ahead or the road to hell? analysing street tree strategies in the UK
262(13)
Nicola Dempsey
PART 3 Community engagement, civic action and governance
275(122)
21 Legal responsibility for street trees
277(14)
Charles Mynors
22 Occupying public space, generating public spheres: street tree art and activism in East and West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s
291(16)
Sonja Dumpelmann
23 The legacy of colonial and apartheid eras on the distribution, composition and representation of street trees in South Africa
307(13)
Charlie Shackleton
Nanamhla Gwedla
Elandrie Davoren
24 Against all odds: making the case for trees in Bogota, Colombia
320(14)
German Tovar Corzo
Sylvie Nail
25 Legal protection of street trees in Israel: actors, process and enforcement
334(14)
Yifat Holzman-Gazit
26 Tracing the socio-political dynamics of street tree contestation in the twenty-first century through the Sheffield case-study
348(15)
Ian D. Rotherham
Matthew Flinders
27 Tree/house/street: site lines as fight lines
363(11)
Fionn Stevenson
28 A case for change: why green practitioners need to learn more about engineering and get political!
374(12)
Russell Horsey
29 Conclusions
386(11)
Select Bibliography 397(6)
Index 403
Jan Woudstra trained in landscape architecture and horticulture in the Netherlands and at Kew and completed an MA at the University of York, at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies. His PhD at University College London looked at modernism in twentieth-century landscape design. After having worked in private practice with much tree-related business, he joined the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield, where he is a Reader in Landscape History and Theory. He has published widely, including: Jan Woudstra and Colin Roth (eds), A History of Groves (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2018), and Jonathan Finch and Jan Woudstra, Capability Brown, Royal Gardener: The Business of Place-making in Northern Europe (2020).

Camilla Allen is a landscape architect and environmental historian. She completed her doctorate, The Making of the Man of the Trees, in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield, on the forester and conservationist Richard St. Barbe Baker (18891982). Her research focuses upon the relationship we have with the natural world which she explores through particular places, people and events like Britain's three tree cathedrals, the designation of special groves within California's coast redwood forest, and the commemorative planting of trees in Sheffield during and after the Great War.