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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.