The city as a botanical field / Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper |
Histories and taxonomies / Part 1: |
Signs of life: interview with Herbert Sukopp |
The metabolic city and the city of biotopes: Paul Duvigneaud and Herbert Sukopp / Jens Lachmund |
Urban granaries, planetary thresholds / Nigel Clark |
The flora of bombed areas (an allegorical key) / Seth Denizen |
Vegetation as testimony: botanical traces of the urban past / Moritz von der Lippe |
The curious disappearance of the Ennore Creek / Bhavani Raman |
Phoenix canariensis in Lisbon's new ecologies: a post-phenomenological tracing of a palm tree in a disused gasworks / Daniel Paiva |
Urban plants and colonial durabilities / Henrik Ernstson |
Ailanthus altissima, or the botanical afterlives of European power / Bettina Stoetzer |
Seeing, surveying, and sorting urban trees: the 1970s street tree project in Dresden / Sonja Dümpelmann |
Vertical ecologies: the balcony biotopes of Berlin / Dorothee Brantz |
Drying greens, commons, and the possibilities of the botanical (in one quiet corner of London) / Marcus Nyman |
Botanizing the asphalt / Part 2: |
The flight of seeds / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra |
Dandelions at work: a street comer tale of ecosystem services / Alexandra R. Toland |
Plants in the urban night / Bergit Arends |
Toxic tour: Houston's environmental apartheid and institutional liberation / T. J. Demos |
Queering the transect / Matthew Gandy |
Walking with plants: disrupting the material logics of degrado at the banks of Turin's Stura river / Lucilla Barchetta |
Following mosquitoes into an urban forest / Nida Rehman |
Rhizome city: tracing knotweed through the soils of Brussels / Livia Cahn |
The art of urban flora / Lois Weinberger and Zheng Bo and Mona Caron and Yan Wang Preston and Uriel OrlowPart 3: |
Experiments in non-design / Part 4: |
Framing urban landscapes: interview with Susanne Hauser |
Acoustic botany: listening to nature in a former airfield / Sandra Jasper |
There's life in dead wood: tracing a more-than-human urbanity in the sponteneous nature of Gothenburg / Mathilda Rosengren |
From undead commodities to lively labourers: (re)valuing vegetal life, reclaiming the power to design-with plants / Marion Ernwein |
Tracing the urban pastoral in Tallinn: Leo Marx, Kari Marx, and urban political aesthetics / Maroš Knvý |
Tokyo ecology: the Akabane Nature Observation Park / Kumiko Kiuchi |
Red leaves / Suili Xiao |
Cartographic imaginations / Part 5: |
Urban plants: a window on how ecology becomes evolution / Peter Del Tredici |
Discovering and mapping urban plants / Mark Spencer |
Mapping the urban flora of Berlin / Birgit Seitz |
Nature is for everyone: investigating attitudes to urban biodiversity / Leonie Fischer |
Urban cemeteries in Berlin and beyond: life in the grounds of the dead / Ingo Kowarik |
Contributors |
Acknowledgments |
The city as a botanical field / Matthew Gandy and Sandra Jasper |
Histories and taxonomies / Part 1: |
Signs of life: interview with Herbert Sukopp |