ABSTRACT

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city. Their study is not only a question of the growth and conservation of green spaces, but also has social, cultural and psychological dimensions. This book brings a perspective of political ecology to the complexities of urban trees and forests through three themes: human agency in urban forests and greenspace; arboreal and greenspace agency in the urban landscape; and actions and interventions in the urban forest. 

Contributors include leading authorities from North America and Europe from a range of disciplines, including forestry, ecology, geography, landscape design, municipal planning, environmental policy and environmental history.

part |91 pages

Human Agency in Urban Forests and Greenspace

chapter |16 pages

Urban Forests are Social Natures

Markets, Race, Class, and Gender in Relation to (Un)Just Urban Environments

chapter |12 pages

From Government to Governance

Contribution to the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry

chapter |16 pages

Manufacturing Green Consensus

Urban Greenspace Governance in Singapore

chapter |15 pages

The Places of Trees in Honduras

Contributions of Public Spaces and Smallholders

part |115 pages

Arboreal and Greenspace Agency in the Urban Landscape

chapter |21 pages

(Urban) Places of Trees

Affective Embodiment, Politics, Identity, and Materiality

chapter |15 pages

Order and Disorder in the Urban Forest

A Foucauldian–Latourian Perspective

chapter |15 pages

Four Arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis

High and Low, West and East, from Edo to 2020

chapter |14 pages

The Unruly Tree

Stories from the Archives

chapter |15 pages

Seeking Citizenship

The Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) in Canada

chapter |16 pages

Queering the Urban Forest

Invasions, Mutualisms, and Eco-Political Creativity with the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)

chapter |17 pages

The Thin End of the Green Wedge

Berlin's Planned and Unplanned Urban Landscapes

part |97 pages

Actions and Interventions in the Urban Forest

chapter |15 pages

“A Few Trees” in Gezi Park

Resisting the Spatial Politics of Neoliberalism in Turkey

chapter |19 pages

Constructing New York City's Urban Forest

The Politics and Governance of the MillionTreesNYC Campaign

chapter |16 pages

Reimagining Ecology in the City of Cape Town

Contemporary Urban Ecological Research and the Role of the African Centre for Cities

chapter |15 pages

Cultivating Citizen Stewards

Lessons from Formal and Non-Formal Educators

chapter |15 pages

Learning and Acting through Participatory Landscape Planning

The Case of the Bräkne River Valley, Sweden

chapter |15 pages

Art, Enchantment, and the Urban Forest

A Step, a Stitch, a Sense of Self