ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
2024
“Spiraling Diversity and Blank Spots in a Nineteenth-Century Botanic Utopia,” LA+ 19 (spring 2024): 14–23.
2023
“Growing Houses: Fusing Nature and Culture in the Early Twentieth Century,” Roadsides 010 (2023): 48–55.
Sonja Dümpelmann, Robert R. Gioelli, Stephan Pauleit, Anindya Sinha, Kate Wright, Amy Zhang, “Making Urban Environments: Infrastructures of Power, Resistance and Negotiation,” Global Environment 16, no. 2 (2023): 222-257.
2022
“Pflanzengerechter Städtebau. Schattenbäume, Schmuckbäume, Klimabäume und Zukunftsbäume.” Werk, bauen + wohnen, no. 7 (2022): 28-32.
“Walking, drawing, designing: Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s Drawing Stick and Eighteenth-Century Landscape Gardens.” Ri:vista. Research for Landscape Architecture 20, no. 1 (2022): 100-111.
“Let All Be Educated Alike Up to a Certain Point,” Places Journal, June 21, 2022.
“It’s not Easy Bein’ Green,” LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture 15 (2022): 36-45.
2021
“Green Is Hope, and Grass the Future,” Places Journal, April 2021.
“Grünes Gras und frische Luft im Hippodrom. Zur Berliner Spiel- und Sportbewegung im Deutschen Kaiserreich.” Neue Landschaft, no. 3 (2021): 23-30.
2020
“Urban Trees in Times of Crisis: Palliatives, Mitigators, and Resources.” One Earth 2, May 22 (2020): 402-404.
“Multitasking Street Trees,” Biophilic Cities Journal 3, no. 2 (2020): 36-39
“Trees, Wood, and Paper: Materialities of Urban Arboriculture in Modern Berlin,” Journal of Urban History 46, no. 2 (2020): 310-333.
2019
“Die Kultur der Straßenbäume: Straßenbäume sind in der Geschichte unserer Städte verwurzelt,” ProBaum 3 (2019): 13-19.
2018
“A New Paradigm for the Promenade.” In Inspiration High Line, edited by Lehrstuhl für Landschaftsarchitektur und industrielle Landschaft Fakultät für Architektur, Technische Universität München, 22-23. München: Technische Universität München, 2018.
“The Timekeepers: In Conversation with Kathryn Gleason, Sonja Dümpelmann, Christophe Girot,” LA+ 08 (fall 2018): 108-155.
“Inciting the Cold War: Berlin’s Street Trees as Firewood.” Harvard Design Magazine no. 45 (2018): 154-160.
“Big Sport for Big Landscape,” Paysage Topscape 31 (2018): 49-54.
“Grün im Fluss. Urbane Landschaften in den Werken der Nachkriegszeit von Hammerbacher, Crowe und Parpagliolo.” Topiaria Helvetica (2018): 19-29.
2017
“ ‘Tree Doctor’ vs. ‘Tree Butcher’: Material Practices and Politics of Arboriculture in Chicago.” In Landscript 05: Material Culture, edited by Jane Hutton, 90-113 (Berlin: Jovis, 2017).
2016
“Holding Fear.” Harvard Design Magazine 42 (2016): 33.
“Airport–A Cultural Landscape?” Landscape Architecture China, no. 8 (2016): 69-80.
2015
“Designing the ‘Shapely City’: Women, Trees, and the City.” Journal of Landscape Architecture, no. 2 (2015): 6-17.
“Planting Civil Rights: Street Tree Plant-Ins in New York City.” Landscape Architecture Magazine 105, no. 12 (2015): 116-124.
“Landscape: A Vignette.” AIJ Journal of Architecture and Building Science 130, no. 1671 (2015): 20-23 (English and Japanese).
2014
“What’s in a Word: On the Politics of Language in Landscape Architecture.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 34, no. 3 (2014): 207-225.
[with Peter Galison] “Flying, Reading, Landing: Sonja Dümpelmann talks to Peter Galison about the Architecture of Air.” Harvard Design Magazine 38 (2014): 20-21 and inserted pages in between.
“An Introduction to Landscape Design and Economics.” Landscape Research 39, no. 5 (2014): 1-11.
[with Susan Herrington] “Plotting Time in Landscape Architecture.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 34, no. 1 (2014).
2012
“For ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ Zur Parkplanung in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika 1830-1930. Ein kurzer Überblick.” Die Gartenkunst 23, no. 1 (2012): 77-87.
2011
“Taking Turns: Landscape and Environmental History at the Crossroads.” Landscape Research 36, no. 6 (2011): 625-640.
2010
“Between Science and Aesthetics: Aspects of ‘Air-minded’ Landscape Architecture.” Landscape Journal 29, no. 2 (2010): 161-178.
“The Landscape Architect Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard in Britain: her international career 1946-1974.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 30, no. 1 (2010): 94-113.
“Großstadtgrün–Inszenierungen für Erholung und Event.” StadtBauwelt 101, no. 187 (2010): 52-57.
2009
“Creating Order with Nature: The Emergence of Park System Planning in Twentieth-Century Washington, Chicago, Berlin and Rome.” Planning Perspectives 24, no. 2 (2009): 143-173.
“Die Umnutzung von Flugplätzen: Der Orange County Great Park südöstlich von Los Angeles.” Stadt und Grün 58, no. 10 (2009): 33-40.
2007
“Introduction.” In Pückler and America, edited by Sonja Dümpelmann. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement 4 (2007): 1-9.
2006
“American System and Italian Beauty: Transnationale Aspekte der Parkplanung in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts.” Die Gartenkunst 18, no. 1: 119-142.
2005
“ ‘La battaglia del fiore’. Gardens, Parks and the City in Fascist Italy.” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 25, no. 1 (2005): 40-70.
“The Park International: Park System Planning as an International Phenomenon at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” GHI Bulletin 37 (Fall): 75-86.
2003
Dümpelmann, Sonja. “Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-1974). Zum Einfluß gartenkultureller Entwicklungen in Italien, England und Deutschland auf ihre frühen Arbeiten.” Die Gartenkunst 15, no. 1 (2003): 141-157.
2002
“Maria Teresa Parpagliolo Shephard (1903-74): Her Development as a Landscape Architect between Tradition and Modernism.” Garden History 30, no. 1 (2002): 49-73.
2001
“Zur Gartenkultur in Italien um 1930. Die Verbreitung ausländischer Gartenarchitektur durch den italienischen Architekten und Stadtplaner Luigi Piccinato (1899-1983).” Stadt und Grün 50, no. 1 (2001): 40-47.
“Über den Gärtner und Schriftsteller Karl Foerster. ‘Suchet und ihr werdet noch ganz etwas anderes finden’.” Stadt und Grün 50, no. 11 (2001): 786-788.
2000
“The Giardini Margherita in Bologna – an example of North Italian Urban Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 20, no. 1 (2000): 69-83.
“Zur Gartenkultur in Italien um 1930. Entwürfe ausländischer Gartenarchitekten als Ausgangspunkt für die Suche nach dem ‘giardino moderno’.” Stadt und Grün 49, no. 6 (2000): 404–410.
1999
“Der Parco del Valentino in Turin. Beispiel einer italienischen Stadtparkanlage aus der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Die Gartenkunst 11, no. 1 (1999): 81-94.