"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 centuries. . . . 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 As nature's largest and
longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important
role in our cities; they are 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 urban areas,
surrounded by millions of trees of hundreds of different species.
Despite their ubiquity and familiarity, most of us take trees for
granted and know little of their fascinating natural history or
remarkable civic virtues. Jill Jonnes's Urban Forests tells the
captivating stories of the founding mothers and fathers of urban
forestry, in addition to those arboreal advocates presently using
the latest technologies to illuminate the value of trees to public
health and to our urban infrastructure. 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. For amateur botanists, urbanists, environmentalists,
and policymakers, Urban Forests will be a revelation of one of the
greatest, most productive, and most beautiful of our natural
resources.
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