Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0152-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

Imagine an urban oasis with hundreds of thousands of trees and whose mayor wants to plant a million more. That sylvan place is New York City, and this is a guide to the diverse trees that line its streets.

Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City acquaints New Yorkers and visitors alike with fifty species of trees commonly found in the neighborhoods where people live, work, and travel. Beautiful, original drawings of leaves and stunning photographs of bark, fruit, flower, and twig accompany informative descriptions of each species. Detailed maps of the five boroughs identify all of the city’s neighborhoods, and specific addresses pinpoint where to find a good example of each tree species.

Trees provide invaluable benefits to the Big Apple: they reduce the rate of respiratory disease, increase property values, cool homes and sidewalks in the summer, block the harsh winds of winter, clean the air, absorb storm water runoff, and provide habitat and food for the city’s wildlife.

Bald cypress, swamp oak, silver linden, and all of New York’s most common trees are just a page turn away. Your evening walk will never be the same once you come to know the quiet giants that line the city's streets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day, Leslie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smoke, Trudy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstbotanik, Baumbiologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Amy Freitag
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Leafy Neighborhoods of the Five Boroughs
2. Tree Terminology
3. Illustrated Glossary
4. Trees
Deciduous Conifers
Bald Cypress
Dawn Redwood
Deciduous Broadleaf Trees
Simple, Unlobed
Callery Pear
Northern Catalpa
Schubert Chokecherry
Kwanzan Cherry
Crabapple
Downy Serviceberry
Eastern Redbud
American Elm
Chinese Elm
Japanese Zelkova
Flowering Dogwood
Ginkgo Biloba
Hawthorn
European Hornbeam
Japanese Tree Lilac
Katsura
American Linden
Littlelead Linden
Silver Linden
Saucer Magnolia
Purple Leaf Plum
Simple, Lobed
London Plane
Hedge Maple
Japanese Maple
Norway Maple
Red Maple
Rilver Maple
Sugar Maple
Sycamore Maple
White Mulberry
Eastern White Oak
English Oak
Northern Red Oak
Pin Oak
Sawtooth Oak
Swamp White Oak
Willow Oak
Sweetgum
Tuliptree
Compound, Pinnate
Tree of Heaven
Green Ash
White Ash
Black Locust
Honey Locust
Goldenrain Tree
Japanese Pagodatree
Kentucky Pagodatree
Compound, Chestnut
5. Tree People
Tree Care Tips
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Day, Leslie
Leslie Day is a New York City naturalist. The author of Honeybee Hotel: The Waldorf Astoria's Rooftop Garden and the Heart of NYC, Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City, and Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City, Dr. Day taught environmental science and biology for more than twenty years. Today, she leads nature walks, gives talks, and teaches at the New York Botanical Garden.

Smoke, Trudy
Trudy Smoke is a professor of linguistics and rhetoric at Hunter College, City University of New York and a nature illustrator. She is the illustrator of Field Guide to the Street Trees of New York City.

Leslie Day is a New York City naturalist and the author of Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, also published by Johns Hopkins. Dr. Day taught environmental science and biology for more than twenty years. Today, she leads nature tours in New York City Parks for the New York Historical Society, the High Line Park, Fort Tryon Park Trust, Riverside Park Conservancy, and New York City Audubon. Trudy Smoke is a professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York, and a talented writer, photographer, and illustrator.