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

Joseph Stanhope Cialdella (Author)

University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

ISBN: 9780822945727

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 227

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Suburb; suburbia Urban renewal Gardens Parks Landscape architecture Greenways 20th century 19th century 21st century Michigan (U.S.) Detroit (Michigan)

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 Debra A. Reid (2024) Review of "Motor City Green: a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit". Agricultural History (pp. 300-301). unapi

Review Robert Gioielli (2022) Review of "Motor City Green: a century of landscapes and environmentalism in Detroit". American Historical Review (pp. 987-988). unapi

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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