City Bountiful
Subtitle: A Century of Community Gardening in America
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780520243439
Subjects: Gardening; 20th century; History; Environmental Science; Gardening / Horticulture; Architecture; USA; Landscape; Sociology - Urban; History / General; Community gardens; United States
First sentence: CHILDREN'S DELIGHTED FACES AS THEY pull up the carrots they had planted from seeds, neighbors working together to transform a vacant lot into a garden, mouth-watering vegetables just picked from the earth-these are what come to the minds of many when they think of community gardens.