Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit Contributor(s): Cialdella, Joseph S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 082294572X ISBN-13: 9780822945727 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 246 pages |
Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |