Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415714105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 332 str.

L. Anders Sandberg; Adrina Bardekjian; Sadia Butt

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt  Part 1: Human Agency in Urban Forests and Greenspace  2. Urban Forests are Social Natures: Markets, Race, Class, and Gender in Relation to (Un)just Urban Environments  Harold Perkins  3. From Government to Governance: Contribution to the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry  Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch  4. A Genealogy of Urban Forest Discourse in Flanders, Belgium  Ann Van Herzele  5. Institutions, Law, and the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry: A Comparative Approach  Blake Hudson  6. Manufacturing Green Consensus: Urban Green Governance in Singapore  Natalie Gulsrud and Can Seng Ooi  7. The Places of Trees in Honduras: Contributions of Public Spaces and Smallholders  Joby Bass  Part 2: Arboreal and Greenspace Agency in the Urban Landscape  8. (Urban) Places of Trees: Affective Embodiment, Identity and Materiality  Owain Jones  9. Order and Disorder in the Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective  Irus Braverman  10. High and Low, West and East: Four Arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis  Jay Bolthouse  11. The Unruly Tree: Stories from the Archives  Joanna Dean  12. Seeking Citizenship: The Norway Maple in Canada  Brendon Larson  13. Queering the Urban Forest: The Ecological Ethics and Politics of Arboreal Entanglement  Darren Patrick  14. The Thin End of the Green Wedge: Berlin’s Planned and Unplanned Urban Landscapes  Cynthia Hammond  Part 3: Actions and Interventions in the Urban Forest  15. "A Few Trees" in Gezi Park: Resisting the Spatial Politics of Neoliberalism in Turkey  Bengi Akbulut  16. Constructing New York City’s Urban Forest: The Politics and Governance of the MillionTreesNYC Campaign  Lindsay Campbell  17. Promoting Green Space in Cape Town, South Africa: The Role of the African Centre for Cities  Pippin Anderson  18. Cultivating Citizen Stewards: Lessons from Formal and Non-formal Educators  Greg Smith  19. Learning and Acting through Participatory Landscape Planning: The Case of the Bräkne River Valley, Sweden  Helena Mellqvist and Roland Gustavsson  20. A Step, A Stitch, A Sense of Self: Woods Walking as an Artist’s Path to Creating Identity  Kathleen Vaughan