Motor City Green : A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit /

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"Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues Detroit residents used gr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cialdella, Joseph Stanhope (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban renewal.
Urban parks.
Urban landscape architecture.
Urban gardens.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Renovation urbaine > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire.
Jardins urbains > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire.
Parcs urbains > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire.
Paysage urbain > Michigan > Detroit > Histoire.
Urban renewal > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Urban gardens > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Urban parks > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Urban landscape architecture > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Michigan > Detroit.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Greening Detroit's History
  • One: Parks and Potatoes
  • Two: "You Cannot Grow Lilies in Ash-Barrels"
  • Three: Greener Pastures
  • Four: Metropolitan Parks and Regional Inequality
  • Five: Community Gardening and Urban Revitalization
  • Epilogue: Learning with Detroit
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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