Working Mans Green Space Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Altersempfehlung
ab 22 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
21.02.2014
Abbildungen
41 black & white illustrations, 4 tables
Verlag
University of Virginia PressSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
23.9/16.3/2.3 cm
Gewicht
501 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8139-3508-9
With antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained impetus in the nineteenth century as rural workers crowded into industrial cities, was for a long time primarily a repository of ideas concerning social reform, hygienic improvement, and class mobility. Complementing efforts by worker cooperatives, unions, and social legislation, the provision of small garden plots offered some relief from bleak urban living conditions. Urban planners often thought of such gardens as a way to insert "lungs" into a city. Standing at the intersection of a number of disciplines--including landscape studies, horticulture, and urban history-- The Working Man's Green Space focuses on the development of allotment gardens in European countries in the nearly half-century between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when the French Third Republic, the German Empire, and the late Victorian era in England saw the development of unprecedented measures to improve the lot of the "labouring classes." Nilsen shows how community gardening is inscribed within a social contract that differs from country to country, but how there is also an underlying aesthetic and social significance to these gardens that transcends national borders.
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