Top 15 posts of 2010

All of our top posts* of 2010 were written in the last quarter of the year.  These fifteen posts covered a range of topics such as trees (the American chestnut, Stuyvesant's pear tree, American sweetgums not planted at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza, and cherry trees in bloom and in fall color); the urban cemetery (as habitat and as new park space); design competitions (Sukkah City and urbancanvas); gardens (Portland Classical Chinese Garden); books (on ethnobotany and Peter Harnik's Urban Green); sustainable design (New York's Greenstreets Program and green roofs on bird houses); and more.

What was your favorite post of 2010?

(*This list was generated by readers clicks and collected by lijit.com.  The post was edited on Nov. 8, 2011.)

• Curating the Urban Cemetery as Bird Habitat 10/05/2010
• American chestnut (soup) poised for a comeback 11/09/2010
• American sweetgums removed from the landscape design of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza 12/14/2010 
• Call for books: Ethnobotany of trees & forests 11/12/2010 
• Lost photos of the Portland Classical Chinese Garden (Lan Su Chinese Garden) 12/23/2010

• Peter Stuyvesant's pear tree 11/29/2010  
• Finding Park Space in the City 12/08/2010

• Sukkah City in Union Square Park 09/22/2010  
• Managing stormwater with Greenstreets 10/01/2010  
• Tree care tools 12/02/2010
• New Bowery Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue 09/28/2010 
• Then & Now: Bleecker Street Cherry Trees 11/22/2010   



Image: Bluebird House by Sustainable Pet Design (courtesy of Stephanie Rubin)

• Green-roofed bird houses 12/24/2010 
• urbancanvas Design Competition, or beautifying temporary protective structures 09/20/2010
• Wordless Wednesday: Pumpkins in the city 11/24/2010