City Bountiful : A Century of Community Gardening in America.
Başlık:
City Bountiful : A Century of Community Gardening in America.
Yazar:
Lawson, Laura.
ISBN:
9780520931558
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (384 pages)
İçerik:
illustrations -- tables -- preface and acknowledgments -- introduction: Garden Patches in American Cities -- part I: Early Urban Garden Programs, 1890s to1917 -- part I: Introduction -- chapter one: An Alternative to Charity TheVacant-Lot Cultivation Association -- chapter two: The School Garden Movement -- chapter three: The Goodness of Gardening Gardens as Civic Improvement -- part II: National Urban Garden Campaigns, 1917 to1945 -- part II: Introduction -- chapter four: Patriotic Volunteerism TheWar Garden Campaign -- chapter five: An Antidote for Idleness Garden Programs of the 1930s Depression -- chapter six: Victory Gardens ofWorldWar II -- part III: Gardening for Community, 1945 to the Present -- part III: Introduction -- chapter seven: The Community Garden Movement of the 1970s and 1980s -- chapter eight: Community Greening Urban Garden Programs from 1990 to the Present -- chapter nine: A Look at Gardens Today -- conclusion: Sustaining a City Bountiful -- notes -- index.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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