What Street Trees Tell Us About Our Cities – A Review of “Seeing Trees”

November 17, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Dümpelmann, Sonja. Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York and Berlin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. Reviewed by Sara E. Levine Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York and Berlin by Sonja Dümpelmann is more than a history of street trees in two cities. It is about politics […]

Open Pit Mining Boom and Bust in Butte — A Review of “The City that Ate Itself”

November 9, 2021.Reading time 11 minutes.

Leech, Brian James. The City that Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. Reviewed by Troy A. Halsell Butte, Montana, is an interesting place. When I first visited the city in the spring of 2019, its turn-of-the-twentieth-century architecture in the uptown central business district and its ubiquitous […]

Retrieving Spatial Justice in Beirut

November 3, 2021.Reading time 18 minutes.

By Ghida Ismail “Retrieving Beirut” was written on one of the walls in the Gemmayzeh neighborhood of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Drawn below it was a taxi car. Beirut’s walls seemed to be calling attention to the indispensability of mobility, secured through the network of taxis and buses/vans, in retrieving the city from the grips of […]

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Month: November 2021

What Street Trees Tell Us About Our Cities – A Review of “Seeing Trees”

Open Pit Mining Boom and Bust in Butte — A Review of “The City that Ate Itself”

Retrieving Spatial Justice in Beirut