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Search - Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape

Urban Forests A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Author: Jill Jonnes

?Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.? ?Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction — ?Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America?s city trees over the past two centu... more »ries. . . . An authoritative account.? ?Gerard Helferich, The Wall Street Journal

?We all know that trees can make streets look prettier. But in her new book Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes explains how they make them safer as well.? ?Sara Begley, Time Magazine

A celebration of urban trees and the Americans?presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists, scientists, nurserymen, and tree nerds?whose arboreal passions have shaped and ornamented the nation?s cities, from Jefferson?s day to the present

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.)

From the Hardcover edition.

ISBN-13: 9780143110446
ISBN-10: 0143110446
Publication Date: 9/5/2017
Pages: 416
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Genres:

History >> Americas >> United States
Science & Math >> Biological Sciences >> Plants >> Trees
Science & Math >> Nature & Ecology >> Natural History

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