City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America - Softcover

Lawson, Laura J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520243439 ISBN 13: 9780520243439

Verlag: University of California Press, 2005

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Book by Lawson Laura J

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"An important book about how the urban gardening movement is transforming our landscape and reconnecting us to the land." - Alice Waters, Owner, Chez Panisse"

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Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, school gardens, Depression-era relief gardens, victory gardens, and community gardens--each representing a consistent impulse to return to gardening during times of social and economic change. In this critical history of community gardening in America, the most comprehensive review of the greening of urban communities to date, Laura J. Lawson documents the evolution of urban garden programs in the United States. Her vibrant narrative focuses on the values associated with gardening, the ebb and flow of campaigns during times of social and economic crisis, organizational strategies of these primarily volunteer campaigns, and the sustainability of current programs.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0520243439
• ISBN 13: 9780520243439
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384