Book ID: CBB584202863

Motor City Green: a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit (2020)

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Joseph Stanhope Cialdella (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 227
Language: English

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.

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Review Andrew C Baker (October 2020) Review of "Motor City Green: a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit". Environmental History (pp. 795-796). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Anders Larsson
Alan Tate
Na Xiu
Charles A. Parrott
Maria Ignatieva
Shuoxin Zhang
Concepts
Landscape architecture
Parks
Gardens
Urban history
Botany
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
18th century
Modern
Enlightenment
Places
United States
Michigan (U.S.)
Detroit (Michigan)
London (England)
China
Lowell, Mass.
Institutions
Proprietors of Locks and Canals
Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company
Quincy Mining Company
Merrimack Manufacturing Company
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company
University of Michigan Medical School
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