Sonja Dümpelmann
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Biography
Sonja Dümpelmann is a landscape historian and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. She is the author and editor of several books, most recently the prize-winning Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin (Yale Univ. Press, 2019). She lectures internationally and has served as President of the Landscape History Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and as Senior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC.
Rutgers Climate Bridge Panel 9: Vision for Policy
Abstract
Park systems and tree-lined streets have been used as ordering devices in cities and beyond for a long time. In the late nineteenth century park planning became part of regional land use planning. Based upon these early visions, this contribution will contrast and compare the main traits of street tree planting in the U.S. and Germany in the last 150 years, offering some lessons learnt that could inform future visions for more just cities.