ISBN:
9781000556520
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (433 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.1216
Keywords:
City planning-Environmental aspects
;
Trees in cities
;
Sustainable urban development
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword by David Blunkett -- The Street Tree Replacement Programme -- Introduction -- PART 1 Historic perspectives on street trees and politics -- 1 The 'Right to Plant': roadside tree planting in the Netherlands -- 2 'Trees even in their very roads': mid-seventeenth-century English perspectives on trees, streets and politics -- 3 Green lines of power? the Apprentice Boys' trees and the walls of Derry/Londonderry -- 4 Progress and economics: planting roadside fruit trees in the German states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 5 Sylvan strife: tree conflicts in Victorian and Edwardian towns -- 6 Drivers of street tree species selection: the case of London planetrees in Philadelphia -- 7 A 'silent' activist for trees: the life and legacy of Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel in Mysore, India -- 8 A broken covenant: the creation and desecration of Sheffield's living memorials -- 9 Roads of modernisation: street tree planting in the Republic of China (1911-1949) -- 10 Japanese cherry pride on foreign ground -- PART 2 Street tree values, policy and management -- 11 Highway tree policies and management: an historical perspective of ownership and responsibility -- 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 -- 13 Emerging challenges and developments with respect to street trees in compact cities -- 14 The opportunity to interact with the urban forest is a human right -- 15 What street trees mean: memory, beauty and hospitality -- 16 Climate change, forest fires, and evolving street tree policies in Porto, Portugal -- 17 The political economy of street trees.
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