{"product_id":"cultivating-the-city-nate-ela-9780226857190","title":"Cultivating the City: The Long Struggle to Put Land to Use","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA story of law and social policy in a place you might not expect: community gardens and urban farms. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough Chicago is a city of legendary skyscrapers and dense apartment blocks, it is also a city of wide-open tracts of land. This surprising juxtaposition can be viewed as an opportunity, in that available land can become a food source for urban dwellers, especially those experiencing poverty or limited access to grocery stores. But most empty land in Chicago remains empty -- why? In \u003ci\u003eCultivating the City\u003c\/i\u003e, sociologist and legal scholar Nate Ela\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the history of Chicago's urban farms and gardens, their promotion as a tool to support the poor and unemployed, and their repeated failure to take root as a permanent part of Chicago's landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEla's fresh take on contemporary urban agriculture features a new perspective on social policy and urban governance. For hundreds of years, social reformers have worked to address poverty and unemployment by letting people use land to grow food. Reformers experimented with the possibilities of property use, including deals to match gardeners with public or private land, proposals to let growers use land without owners' permission, and the transformation of private land into municipal gardens. By exposing the dynamics of this longstanding but long-overlooked form of social policy in Chicago, Ela offers a new strategy for cultivating cities that are productive, resilient, and just. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nate Ela\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226857190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226857190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Nate Ela","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50663689519359,"sku":"9780226857190","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46fe60af-7d62-4023-9d10-3409d8823d67.jpg?v=1792003104","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultivating-the-city-nate-ela-9780226857190","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}