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Reconstruction of Urban Forests - Post World War II and the Bosnian War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Reconstruction of Urban Forests - Post World War II and the Bosnian War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book will address the destruction of urban forest in nine
cities by bombing during World War II and the Bosnian War and their
reconstruction in the post-war years. After reviewing the general
objectives and results of aerial bombing, the book explores the
effects of bombing and the reconstruction of urban forest in
London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, St. Petersburg, Stalingrad,
Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Sarajevo. Sarajevo stands out among these
cities because the destruction of its urban forest was the result
of citizens cutting down trees for firewood during the siege of the
city. Most of the cities studied developed plans for reconstruction
either during or after the war. These plans often addressed the
planning and re-establishment of the urban forest that had been
destroyed. Urban planners often planned for infrastructure
improvements such as new boulevards and parks where trees would be
planted. After the war many of these plans were abandoned or
significantly modified. Cost, resistance by property owners,
control of reconstruction by authorities outside of the cities, and
the lack of planting stock were factors contributing to the failure
of many of the plans. Exceptions occurred in Hiroshima and Coventry
where the destroyed cities became symbols of national
reconstruction and every effort was made to redesign the destroyed
portions of these cities as memorials to those who lost their lives
and to demonstrate the rebirth of the cities. In several of the
cities studied individual citizens undertook on their own the
replanting of street and park trees. Their ingenuity, hard work,
and dedication to trees in their cities was remarkable. A common
factor limiting efforts to replant street and park trees was the
lack of nursery stock. During and immediately after the wars nearly
all nurseries that had supplied trees for city planting had been
converted to vegetable gardens to produce food for the urban
populations. The slow return to the production of trees for urban
planting was a common factor in the time required in many cities to
restore their street and park trees. There are lessons to be
learned by urban planner, urban forester, and landscape architects
from this book that will be useful in the future destruction of
urban forest either by natural or man-made causes.
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