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City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America Laura Lawson
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City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
Laura Lawson
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.
382 pages, 75 b/w photographs, 11 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 30, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520243439 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 382 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 23 mm · 499 g |
| Language | English |
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