City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520243439)

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.

Author: Laura Lawson
ISBN-10: 0520243439
ISBN-13: 9780520243439
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2005
Pages: 382
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/05/2005 pg. 18