City Bountiful : A Century of Community Gardening in America

Name: City Bountiful
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520243439
Price: 5400 KES
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ISBN: 9780520243439

by Laura Lawson

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0520243439

ISBN-13 9780520243439

Publisher University of California Press

Imprint University of California Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 30th, 2005

Print length 382 Pages

Weight 499 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Architecture Gardening

KSh 5,400.00

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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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