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agriculture
american city
architecture
Author_Laura Lawson
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cities
city gardens
civic improvement
community
community gardens
community living
depression era
environment
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farming
food farm
food justice
food studies
gardening
gardens
landscape
nature
nonfiction
open spaces
outdoors
parks
school garden movement
social history
sustainable living
urban garden
urban gardens
urban open space
vacant lot cultivation association
victory gardens
war garden
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243439
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Laura J. Lawson is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her knowledge of community gardens has developed from academic interest as well as personal experience as coordinator of Berkeley Youth Alternatives' Community Garden Patch.
