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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.
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Published/Created:New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
©2016
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: SB435.5 .J66 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: SB435.5 .J66 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Trees in cities--United States.
Urban forestry--United States.
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Description:xx, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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.
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Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-381) and index.
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ISBN:9780670015665 (hardcover)
0670015660 (hardcover)
9781101632130 (ebook)
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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.