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From the Ground Up: Community Gardens in New York City and the Politics of Spatial Transformation. Efrat Eizenberg

From the Ground Up: Community Gardens in New York City and the Politics of Spatial Transformation. Efrat Eizenberg

Hardcover

Series: Re-Materialising Cultural Geography

Environmental StudiesGeneral GardeningGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1409429091
ISBN13: 9781409429098
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 8 2013
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Some 650 community gardens dot the city of New York. These gardens are attended by some of the least advantaged residents of the city. Urban residents use these spaces for horticulture, recreation, social gatherings, and artistic and cultural events. This book shows how, in the process of attempting to protect these highly contested spaces, residents developed as community leaders and urban activists. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to follow the political development of urban residents, the book examines how everyday spatial practices, social interactions, the production of alternative urban space, and the generation of new urban knowledge render community gardeners into important social actors in the urban scene.

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