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    Urban forests : a natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape / Jill Jonnes.

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    • Title:Urban forests : a natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape / Jill Jonnes.
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    • Author/Creator:Jonnes, Jill, 1952- author.
    • Published/Created:New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
      ©2016

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Trees in cities--United States.
      Urban forestry--United States.
    • Description:xx, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Summary:"Nature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cityscapes, living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four fifths of Americans live in or near cities, surrounded by millions of trees, urban forests containing hundreds of species. Despite the ubiquity and familiarity of those trees, most of us take them for granted and know little of their specific natural history or civic virtues. Jill Jonnes's Urban Forests is a passionate, wide-ranging, and fascinating natural history of the tree in American cities over the course of the past two centuries. Jonnes's survey ranges from early sponsors for the Urban Tree Movement to the fascinating stories of particular species (including Washington, DC's famed cherry trees, and the American chestnut and elm, and the diseases that almost destroyed them) to the institution of Arbor Day to the most recent generation of tree evangelists who are identifying the best species to populate our cities' leafy canopies. The book examines such questions as the character of American urban forests and the effect that tree-rich landscaping might have on commerce, crime, and human well-being. As we wrestle with how to repair the damage we have wrought on nature and how to slow climate change, urban forests offer an obvious, low-tech solution. (In 2006, U.S. Forest Service scientist Greg McPherson and his colleagues calculated that New York City's 592,000 street trees annually saved $28 million in energy costs through shading and cooling, or $47.63 per tree.)"--Amazon.com.
    • Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-381) and index.
    • ISBN:9780670015665 (hardcover)
      0670015660 (hardcover)
      9781101632130 (ebook)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: One. "So Great a Botanical Curiosity" and "The Celestial Tree": Introducing the Ginkgo and Ailanthus
      Two. "No Man Does Anything More Visibly Useful to Posterity Than He Who Plants a Tree": Inventing Arbor Day and Cities of Trees
      Three. "A Demi-God of Trees" and "The Tree Doctor": Charles Sprague Sargent and John Davey
      Four. "This Fungus Is the Most Rapid and Destructive Known": A Plague Strikes the American Chestnut
      Five. "Washington Would One Day Be Famous for Its Flowering Cherry Trees": Eliza Scidmore and David Fairchild
      Six. "I Knew That There Were No Roads in China": Plant Explorers Frank Meyer and E. H. Wilson
      Seven. "A Poem Lovely as a Tree": Cherishing Memorial and Historic Trees
      Eight. "The Two Great Essentials for an Arboretum, Soil and Money": Chicago, D.C., and Boston
      Nine. "Imagine the Wiping Out of the Beautiful Avenues of Elms": Battling to Save an American Icon
      Ten. "A Forest Giant Just on the Edge of Extinction!": Discovering the Dawn Redwood
      Eleven. "There Was No Question That People Wanted to Save This Tree": Crusading for a New American Elm
      Twelve. "Having Cities Work with Forces of Nature": The Rise of the New Urban Forestry
      Thirteen. "Trees Are the Answer": John Hansel, Henry Stern, Deborah Gangloff, and George Bush
      Fourteen. "Don't Trees Clean the Air?": Rowan Rowntree, Greg McPherson, and David Nowak
      Fifteen. "We Stand a Great Chance of Seeing a Return of the Stately and Valuable American Elm": Rebirth of an Iconic Tree?
      Sixteen. "I Never Saw Such a Bug in My Life": Attack of the Asian Long-Horned Beetles
      Seventeen. "On That Branch Was a Four-Inch Green Shoot with Leaves": Ground Zero Survivor Trees
      Eighteen. "I Was Surprised It Was So Aggressive": Waging War on the Emerald Ash Borer
      Nineteen. "Putting in an Urban Forest Instead of a Storm Drain": High-Tech Meets a Million Trees
      Twenty. "Help Restore a Lost Piece of American History": Return of the Elm
      Twenty-One. "Oh, My God! They're Really Here": Further Conquests of the Asian Beetles
      Twenty-Two. "A Tree Is Shaped by Its Experiences": The Survivor Trees.
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