Avant Gardening
Subtitle: Ecological Struggle in the City & the World
Contributors: Peter Lamborn Wilson (Editor); Bill Weinberg (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781570270925
Subjects: Nature; Urban; Gardening / Horticulture; Nature/Ecology; Essays; Ecology; Gardening; Radical Politics
Description: This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the Supermarket to the World ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others.