City Bountiful A Century of Community Gardening in America

Name: City Bountiful A Century of Community Gardening in America
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ISBN: 9780520243439

ISBN-10: 0520243439

ISBN-13: 9780520243439

Edition: 2005

Authors: Laura Lawson

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction


Garden Patches in American Cities



Early Garden Programs, 1890s to 1917


Introduction



An Alternative to Charity: The Vacant-Lot Cultivation Association



The School Garden Movement



The Goodness of Gardening: Gardens as Civic Improvement



National Urban Garden Campaigns, 1917 to 1945


Introduction



Patriotic Volunteerism: The War Garden Campaign



An Antidote for Idleness: Garden Programs of the 1930s Depression



Victory Gardens of World War II



Gardening for Community, 1945 to the Present Introduction



The Community Garden Movement of the 1970s and 1980s



Community Greening: Urban Garden Programs from 1990 to the Present



A Look at Gardens Today


Conclusion


Sustaining a City Bountiful


Notes


Index