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City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America Book

City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
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 repr, City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America has a rating of 4 stars
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  • City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
  • Written by author Laura J. Lawson
  • Published by University of California Press, May 2005
  • 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 repr
  • "The social history of American cities would not be complete without a full account of the rise of community open spaces. Lawson does exactly this by providing a compelling and poetic account of the history and making of urban gardens. Combining solid sch
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Introduction : garden patches in American cities1
Pt. IEarly urban garden programs, 1890s to 1917
1An alternative to charity : the vacant-lot cultivation association23
2The school garden movement51
3The goodness of gardening : gardens as civic improvement93
Pt. IINational urban garden campaigns, 1917 to 1945
4Patriotic volunteerism : the war garden campaign117
5An antidote for idleness : garden programs of the 1930s Depression144
6Victory gardens of World War II170
Pt. IIIGardening for community, 1945 to the present
7The community garden movement of the 1970s and 1980s213
8Community greening : urban garden programs from 1990 to the present238
9A look at gardens today264
Conclusion : sustaining a city bountiful287


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