| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) |
| Series |
History of the urban environment.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 green space to address problems created by the city's industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city's social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today's urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city's past"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Urban landscape architecture -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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Urban parks -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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Urban gardens -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Urban gardens
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Urban landscape architecture
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Urban parks
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Urban renewal
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Michigan -- Detroit
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822987024 |
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0822987023 |
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