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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sonja DümpelmannPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.826kg ISBN: 9780300225785ISBN 10: 0300225784 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 12 February 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsFascinating and well-illustrated . . . a compelling narrative . . . D mpelmann brings an accessible writing style and admirable curiosity . . . authoritative and original . . . she extends the boundaries of landscape history . . . Seeing Trees will serve as an important reference point for urban and landscape history in the future. --Mark Favermann, Arts Fuse Seeing Trees has won the 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson prize, sponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies In this imaginative and deeply researched work, Sonja D mpelmann truly helps us to 'see trees' in the careful chronologies she develops and the political messages that these trees represented within their times and places. --Keith Morgan, Boston University In Seeing Trees the distinguished scholar Sonja D mpelmann employs her linguistic ability, knowledge, and imaginative use of the archival resources in both Berlin and New York to extend the boundaries of landscape history. --Kenneth Helphand, University of Oregon, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime Sonja D mpelmann distills a rich and textured history of street trees--the people involved, technical approaches employed, and the way street trees served as both a polemic and as a point of unification for people. --Susan Herrington, author of Landscape Theory in Design This meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the multifaceted identities of trees--as food, fuel, shelter, and defense--and offers us new ways of reading social history into the natural world. --Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A signal contribution to the history of landscape design and city planning. Writing with narrative verve, Sonja D mpelmann turns rigorous scholarship into a fascinating story of time and place for both the academic and general reader. --Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies Seeing Trees has won the 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson prize, sponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies In this imaginative and deeply researched work, Sonja D mpelmann truly helps us to 'see trees' in the careful chronologies she develops and the political messages that these trees represented within their times and places. --Keith Morgan, Boston University In Seeing Trees the distinguished scholar Sonja D mpelmann employs her linguistic ability, knowledge, and imaginative use of the archival resources in both Berlin and New York to extend the boundaries of landscape history. --Kenneth Helphand, University of Oregon, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime Sonja D mpelmann distills a rich and textured history of street trees--the people involved, technical approaches employed, and the way street trees served as both a polemic and as a point of unification for people. --Susan Herrington, author of Landscape Theory in Design This meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the multifaceted identities of trees--as food, fuel, shelter, and defense--and offers us new ways of reading social history into the natural world. --Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A signal contribution to the history of landscape design and city planning. Writing with narrative verve, Sonja D mpelmann turns rigorous scholarship into a fascinating story of time and place for both the academic and general reader. --Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies Author InformationSonja Dümpelmann is associate professor of landscape architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and author or editor/co-editor of several books, including the 2015 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize–winner Flights of Imagination: Aviation, Landscape, Design. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |