City Trees
Subtitle: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance Through the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: November 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780813925332
Subjects: Historical geography; Landscape art & architecture; Social history; Urban & municipal planning; Sociology - Urban; Trees & Forests - General; World - General; Earth Sciences - Geography; Planning; Architecture; Nature; Europe; History; Trees in cities; United States; Urban landscape architecture
Description: "For those who have ever wondered why we have trees in cities or what makes the layout of cities like Paris and Amsterdam seem so memorable, City Trees: A Historical Geography from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century by Henry W. Lawrence provides a comprehensive and handsome guide to the history of trees in urban landscapes. Covering four centuries of development in the cities of Europe and America, this book shows how trees became integral to urban landscapes by looking at the historical evolution of the spaces in which they were planted and how these spaces were used."--Jacket.