Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-322) and index
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Trees in the urban landscape -- Renaissance innovations: The Sixteenth Century -- Baroque Europe: The Seventeenth Century -- Urban embellishment: 1700 to the 1780s -- Colonial expressions and innovations: 1500-1800 -- Revolutionary Europe and North America, 1789-1820 -- Convergence in Europe and America: 1820-1850 -- A model for the world -- Patterns of change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary:
"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