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 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.
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Great for Detroit Lovers submitted by bmarble on June 10, 2022, 10:57am If you are curious about the history of Detroit, this is the book for you! It covers the history of potato growing in the City, the history of community and policing on Belle Isle, and everything in between in regards to the outdoors. It is well-written and a quick read despite being nonfiction.
PUBLISHED
Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780822945727
082294572X
SUBJECTS
Urban landscape architecture -- Detroit -- History.
Urban parks -- Detroit -- History.
Urban gardens -- Detroit -- History.
Urban renewal -- Detroit -- History.
Michigan -- Detroit.