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City bountiful : a century of community gardening in America /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lawson, Laura J., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Illustrations; tables; preface and acknowledgments; introduction: Garden Patches in American Cities; part I: Early Urban Garden Programs, 1890s to1917; part II: National Urban Garden Campaigns, 1917 to1945; part III: Gardening for Community, 1945 to the Present; conclusion: Sustaining a City Bountiful; notes; index.