Literature Guide: Urban Forestry

Timothy Skinner, MLS, is the Reference Librarian for William Carey International University and a member of Frontier Ventures.

WCIU Journal: Environmental Studies Topic

April 13, 2021

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(Note: An asterisk indicates an e-book in Latourette Library.)  

PREFACE BY VIV GRIGG, wandering poet in the underside of urban megalopolises, catalyst of urban poor movements of faith communities, Professor of Urban Leadership at William Carey International University.

"I have a story I should write about the lack of trees in the slums, about taking a busload of slum kids to a forest to see their first ever trees ... Unless sites and services are multiplied in global cities there will not be trees. Land rights and the provision of sites and services (not high rises), with planning for green spaces, are perhaps the critical missiological pieces for urban environmental sustainability."

Library of Congress Classification

SB 436   Urban forestry

Periodicals

International Journal of Urban Forestry

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Periodical Articles

Alexandria, Jason, and Baarbara Norman. 2020. “The City as Forest—Integrating Living  Infrastructure, Climate Conditioning, and Urban Forestry in Canberra, Australia.” Sustainable Earth 3, no. 1: 1-11.

Heim, Morgan. “Seeing the City for the Trees.” 2021. American Forests 127, no. 1 (Winter/Spring ): 18-21.

Nicholls, Derek C. 1980. “Urban Forestry.” Urban Studies 17, no. 1: 100-01.

Reference Books

*Dictionary for Managing Trees in Urban Environments (2009)

Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry (2019)

Books

*Bartley, Elizabeth M. 2014. Chicago’s Urban Trees and Forests: Assessments, Effects, and Values. New York: Nova.

Jonnes, Jill. 2017. Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape. New York: Penguin Books.

Miller, Robert W., Richard J. Hauer, and Les P. Werner. 2015. Urban Forestry: Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces. 3rd ed. Waveland Press.

*Platt, Rutherford H., Rowan A. Rowntree, and Pamela C. Muick. 1994. The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

Plotnik, Arthur. 2000. The Urban Tree Book: An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town. New York: Crown.

Roloff, Andreas, ed. 2016. Urban Tree Management: For the Sustainable Development of Green Cities. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.