Urban forests, trees, and greenspace :

Urban forests, trees, and greenspace : a political ecology perspective / edited by L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt. - xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Human agency in urban forests and greenspace. Urban forests are social natures : markets, race, class, and gender in relation to (un)just urban environments / From government to governance : contribution to the political ecology of urban forestry / A genealogy of urban forest discourse in Flanders / Institutions, law, and the political ecology of urban forests : a comparative approach / Manufacturing green consensus : urban greenspace governance in Singapore / The places of trees in Honduras : contributions of public spaces and smallholders / Arboreal and greenspace agency in the urban landscape. (Urban) places of trees : affective embodiment, politics, identity, and materiality / Order and disorder in the urban forest : a Foucauldian-Latourian perspective / Four arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis : high and low, west and east, from Edo to 2020 / The unruly tree : stories from the archives / Seeking citizenship : the Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) in Canada / Queering the urban forest : invasions, mutualisms, and eco-political creativity with the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) / The thin end of the Green Wedge : Berlin's planned and unplanned urban landscapes / Actions and interventions in the urban forest. "A few trees" in Gezi Park : resisting the spatial politics of neoliberalism in Turkey / Constructing New York City's urban forest : the politics and governance of the MillionTreesNYC campaign / Reimagining ecology in the city of Cape Town : contemporary urban ecological research and the role of the African Centre for Cities / Cultivating citizen stewards : lessons from formal and non-formal educators / Learning and acting through participatory landscape planning : the case of the Brakne River Valley, Sweden / Art, enchantment, and the urban forest : a step, a stitch, a sense of self / L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, Sadia Butt -- Harold Perkins ; Cecil C. Konijnendijk Van Den Bosch ; Ann Van Herzele ; Blake Hudson ; Natalie Marie Gulsrud Can-Seng Ooi ; J.O. Joby Bass -- Owain Jones ; Irus Braverman ; Jay Bolthouse ; Joanna Dean ; Brendon M. H. Larson ; Darren Patrick ; Cynthia Imogen Hammond -- Bengi Akbulut ; Lindsay K. Campbell ; Pippin Anderson ; Gregory Smith ; Helena Mellqvist Roland Gustavsson ; Kathleen Vaughan. and Part 1: and Part 2: Part 3: and

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Urban forestry.
Urban landscape architecture.
City planning.

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