TY - BOOK AU - Sandberg,L.Anders AU - Bardekjian,Adrina AU - Butt,Sadia TI - Urban forests, trees, and greenspace: a political ecology perspective SN - 9781138282575 (pbk.) AV - SB436 .U735 2015 U1 - 635.977 URB 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge, KW - Urban forestry KW - Urban landscape architecture KW - City planning N1 - 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 ER -