Politics of Street Trees

<p>This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance. This is an innovative approach which is particularly important in the context of mounting environmental and societal challenges and reveals a huge amount about the nature of modern life, social change and political conflict.</p><p>The work first provides different historical perspectives on street trees and politics, celebrating diversity in different cultures. A second section discusses street tree values, policy and management, addressing more contemporary issues of their significance and contribution to our environment, both physically and philosophically. It explores cultural idiosyncrasies and those from the point of view of political economy, particularly challenging the neo-liberal perspectives that continue to dominate political narratives. The final section provides case studies of community engagement, civil action and governance. International case studies bring together contrasting approaches in areas with diverging political directions or intentions, the constraints of laws and the importance of people power. </p><p>By pursuing an interdisciplinary approach this book produces an information base for academics, practitioners, politicians and activists alike, thus contributing to a fairer political debate that helps to promote more democratic environments that are sustainable, equitable, comfortable and healthier.</p> <p><em><strong>Part one: Historic perspectives on street trees and politics</strong></em> <strong>1.</strong> The ‘Right to Plant’: roadside tree planting in The Netherlands <em>Jan Woudstra </em><strong>2.</strong> ‘Trees even in their very roads’: mid seventeenth-century English perspectives on trees, streets, and politics <em>Felicity Stout </em><strong>3.</strong> Green lines of power? The Apprentice Boys' trees and the walls of Derry/Londonderry <em>Finola O’Kane </em><strong>4.</strong> Progress and economics: planting roadside fruit trees in German regions in the 18th and 19th centuries <em>Sylvia Butenschön and Thomas Thränert </em><strong>5.</strong> Sylvan strife: tree conflicts in Victorian and Edwardian towns <em>Paul A. Elliott </em><strong>6.</strong> Drivers of street tree species selection: the case of London planetrees in Philadelphia<em> Lara A. Roman and Theodore S. Eisenman </em><strong>7.</strong> A ‘silent’ activist for trees: the life and legacy of Gustav Hermann Krumbiegel in Mysore, India <em>Gert Groening <strong> </strong></em><strong>8.</strong> A broken covenant: the creation and desecration of Sheffield’s living memorials <em>Camilla Allen </em><strong>9.</strong> Roads of modernisation: street tree planting in the Republic of China (1911-1949) <em>Yishi Liu and Jan Woudstra </em><strong>10.</strong> Japanese cherry pride on foreign ground <em>Wybe Kuitert</em> <i><strong>Part two: Street tree values, policy, and management</strong></i> <strong>11.</strong> Highway tree policies and management: an historical perspective of ownership and responsibility <em>Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen </em><strong>12.</strong> Street trees matter, so what’s the matter with street trees? How the ecosystem services and disservices of street trees can and should influence attitudes <em>Ross Cameron </em><strong>13. </strong>Emerging challenges and developments with respect to street trees in compact cities <em>Kai Wang, Jian Hang and Julian C.R. Hunt </em><strong>14.</strong> The opportunity to interact with the urban forest is a human right <em>Alan Simson </em><strong>15.</strong> What street trees mean: memory, beauty, hospitality <em>John Miller </em><strong>16.</strong> Climate change, forest fires, and evolving street tree policies in Porto, Portugal <em>C</em><em>láudia Fernandes, Catarina Teixeira and Isabel Martinho da Silva</em> <strong>17.</strong> The political economy of street trees <em>John Henneberry and Philip Catney </em><strong>18.</strong> The economics of street trees – Why we so often can’t see the wood for the trees <em>Philip B. Whyman</em> <strong>19.</strong> Roadside trees and traffic safety policies <em>Jan Woudstra</em> <strong> 20.</strong> Streets Ahead or the Road to Hell? Analysing street tree strategies in the UK <em>Nicola Dempsey </em><i><strong>Part three: Community engagement, civic action, and governance </strong> </i><strong>21.</strong> Legal responsibility for street trees <em>Charles Mynors </em><strong>22.</strong> Occupying public space, generating public spheres: street tree art and activism in East and West Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s<em> Sonja Dümpelmann </em><strong>23.</strong> The legacy of colonial and arpartheid eras on the distribution, composition and representation of street trees in South Africa <em>Charlie Shackleton, Nanamhla Gwedla and Elandrie Davoren</em> <strong>24. </strong>Against all odds: making the case for trees in Bogotá, Colombia <em>Germán Tovar Corzo and Sylvie Nail </em><strong>25.</strong> Legal protection of street trees in Israel: Actors, process, and enforcement <em>Yifat Holzman-Gazit</em> <strong> 26.</strong> Tracing the socio-political dynamics of street tree contestation in the twenty-first century through the Sheffield case-study<em> </em><em>Ian D. Rotherham and Matthew Flinders</em> <strong>27. </strong>Tree/House/Street: site lines as fight lines <em>Fionn Stevenson </em><strong>28. </strong>Why green practitioners need to learn more about engineering and get political! <em>Russell Horsey </em><strong>29.</strong> Conclusions <em>Jan Woudstra and Camilla Allen</em></p>