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Urban forests, trees, and greenspace : a political ecology perspective / edited by L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016Description: xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138282575 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 635.977 URB 23 012199
LOC classification:
  • SB436 .U735 2015
Contents:
Introduction / L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt -- Part 1: Human agency in urban forests and greenspace. Urban forests are social natures : markets, race, class, and gender in relation to (un)just urban environments / Harold Perkins ; From government to governance : contribution to the political ecology of urban forestry / Cecil C. Konijnendijk Van Den Bosch ; A genealogy of urban forest discourse in Flanders / Ann Van Herzele ; Institutions, law, and the political ecology of urban forests : a comparative approach / Blake Hudson ; Manufacturing green consensus : urban greenspace governance in Singapore / Natalie Marie Gulsrud and Can-Seng Ooi ; The places of trees in Honduras : contributions of public spaces and smallholders / J.O. Joby Bass -- Part 2: Arboreal and greenspace agency in the urban landscape. (Urban) places of trees : affective embodiment, politics, identity, and materiality / Owain Jones ; Order and disorder in the urban forest : a Foucauldian-Latourian perspective / Irus Braverman ; Four arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis : high and low, west and east, from Edo to 2020 / Jay Bolthouse ; The unruly tree : stories from the archives / Joanna Dean ; Seeking citizenship : the Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) in Canada / Brendon M. H. Larson ; Queering the urban forest : invasions, mutualisms, and eco-political creativity with the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) / Darren Patrick ; The thin end of the Green Wedge : Berlin's planned and unplanned urban landscapes / Cynthia Imogen Hammond -- Part 3: Actions and interventions in the urban forest. "A few trees" in Gezi Park : resisting the spatial politics of neoliberalism in Turkey / Bengi Akbulut ; Constructing New York City's urban forest : the politics and governance of the MillionTreesNYC campaign / Lindsay K. Campbell ; Reimagining ecology in the city of Cape Town : contemporary urban ecological research and the role of the African Centre for Cities / Pippin Anderson ; Cultivating citizen stewards : lessons from formal and non-formal educators / Gregory Smith ; Learning and acting through participatory landscape planning : the case of the Brakne River Valley, Sweden / Helena Mellqvist and Roland Gustavsson ; Art, enchantment, and the urban forest : a step, a stitch, a sense of self / Kathleen Vaughan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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