TY  - SER
AU  - Laurian, Lucie 
TI  - Planning for Street Trees and Human–Nature Relations : Lessons from 600 Years of Street Tree Planting in Paris 
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Sage
KW  -  street trees
KW  - history
KW  - arboriculture
KW  - ecology
KW  - human–nature relations
KW  - urban forestry
KW  - Paris
N2  - Planting rectilinear regularly spaced and low-diversity rows of trees along sidewalks is the dominant streetscaping practice in Western cities. Street trees provide shade, pleasant pedestrian environments, and ecological benefits. I interrogate the origin of this surprisingly stable practice by exploring the last 600 years of street tree planting in Paris. Paris’ iconic tree-lined boulevards have influenced streetscapes worldwide. This model of royal and imperial origins stems from, and reproduces, a complex mode of human–nature relations involving biophilia, the use of orderly nature as a symbolic commodity and, more recently, ecological stewardship

UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1538513218820525
ER  -