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Motor city green [electronic resource] : a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit / Joseph Stanhope Ciadella.

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Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-eBook Academic Collection - North America	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	xii, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Series	eBook Academic Collection - North America
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access	License restrictions may limit access.
Summary	"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.
Subject	Urban landscape architecture -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Urban parks -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Urban gardens -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
	Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.
Added Author	eBook Academic Collection - North America
ISBN	9780822945727 (hardcover)
	9780822987024 (ebook)
OCLC #	sseb_ssj0002248594

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