City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America

Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0520243439 
ISBN 13
9780520243439 
Category
Agriculture  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2005 
Pages
382 
Description
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. - from Amzon 
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