Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace : A Political Ecology Perspective (Paperback)

1. Introduction 

L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt 

Part 1: Human Agency in Urban Forests and Greenspace 

2. Urban Forests are Social Natures: Markets, Race, Class, and Gender in Relation to (Un)just Urban Environments 

Harold Perkins 

3. From Government to Governance: Contribution to the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry 

Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch 

4. A Genealogy of Urban Forest Discourse in Flanders, Belgium 

Ann Van Herzele 

5. Institutions, Law, and the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry: A Comparative Approach 

Blake Hudson 

6. Manufacturing Green Consensus: Urban Green Governance in Singapore 

Natalie Gulsrud and Can Seng Ooi 

7. The Places of Trees in Honduras: Contributions of Public Spaces and Smallholders 

Joby Bass 

Part 2: Arboreal and Greenspace Agency in the Urban Landscape 

8. (Urban) Places of Trees: Affective Embodiment, Identity and Materiality 

Owain Jones 

9. Order and Disorder in the Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective 

Irus Braverman 

10. High and Low, West and East: Four Arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis 

Jay Bolthouse 

11. The Unruly Tree: Stories from the Archives 

Joanna Dean 

12. Seeking Citizenship: The Norway Maple in Canada 

Brendon Larson 

13. Queering the Urban Forest: The Ecological Ethics and Politics of Arboreal Entanglement 

Darren Patrick 

14. The Thin End of the Green Wedge: Berlin’s Planned and Unplanned Urban Landscapes 

Cynthia Hammond 

Part 3: Actions and Interventions in the Urban Forest 

15. "A Few Trees" in Gezi Park: Resisting the Spatial Politics of Neoliberalism in Turkey 

Bengi Akbulut 

16. Constructing New York City’s Urban Forest: The Politics and Governance of the MillionTreesNYC Campaign 

Lindsay Campbell 

17. Promoting Green Space in Cape Town, South Africa: The Role of the African Centre for Cities 

Pippin Anderson 

18. Cultivating Citizen Stewards: Lessons from Formal and Non-formal Educators 

Greg Smith 

19. Learning and Acting through Participatory Landscape Planning: The Case of the Brakne River Valley, Sweden 

Helena Mellqvist and Roland Gustavsson 

20. A Step, A Stitch, A Sense of Self: Woods Walking as an Artist’s Path to Creating Identity 

Kathleen Vaughan