The various components and characteristics of trees have served a multitude of purposes for humans, for as long as we have been in existence. While the tree and its association with the human has been the studied and reflected upon in various disciplines of study, its spatial dimension is the object of this book, seen through the aesthetic, economic, political, socio-cultural and symbolic lenses, primarily in the Indian context. While looking at various Indian socio-cultural zones which are the result of climatic zones, this book attempts to decode the space under the trees by understanding the nuances of different perspectives, hence being situated within a geographical and disciplinary intersect. About the Author: Piyush Das is a Conservation Architect with an M.Arch specialization in Architectural Conservation from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Since 2011, he has been involved in many architectural, conservation and research projects of various scales. He engages with the Traditional Indian Knowledge Systems pertaining to the built environment while researching significant cultural landscape sites such as Mathura, Kishangarh, Bhubaneswar, Chanderi, Mehrauli, Puri, Mahanadi Delta, Coastal belt of Odisha, and others. He is the author of books named 'Memory of a Stream' and 'Built from the Puranas,' as well as the editor of a book titled 'In Search of Modern Indian Identity: Through Architecture with Jugal Kishore Chowdhury.' His ongoing PhD research focuses on a new paradigm for understanding Orissan temple architecture. Dr. Parul G Munjal is the Director of INTACH Heritage Academy, New Delhi. She is a conservation architect with experience of being an academic at School of Art and Architecture, Sushant University for 10 years and Senior Conservation Architect at Development and Research Organisation for Nature, Arts and Heritage (DRONAH) prior to that. With a strong orientation towards interdisciplinary research, Munjal has published widely in journals of repute, in the areas of heritage conservation, community based approach and heritage tourism. The focus of her doctoral research was on built heritage of small and medium towns in Gurgaon.