Kate Brown

Tiny Gardens Everywhere

A History of Urban Resilience. Sprachen: Englisch. 19,8 cm / 12,9 cm / 1,9 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 336 Seiten
EAN 9781529979732
Veröffentlicht Februar 2027
Verlag/Hersteller Vintage Publishing
€ 16,50 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

A big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time 'Splendid' Mail on Sunday
'Galvanising and hugely readable' Financial Times
'A wonder! Absolutely riveting and beautifully written' Isabella Tree
'A fascinating, globe-spanning history' BBC Gardeners' World In the heart of our bustling cities lie overlooked yet vibrant corners of resilience, ingenuity and magic: our gardens. Acclaimed historian Kate Brown takes us from pre-industrial England to modern-day Ohio, via the Paris Commune, Barackia in pre-war Berlin, Soviet allotments in Estonia, the orchards tended by Black migrants in Washington and food forests in contemporary Amsterdam, to encounter ordinary people, working with each other and with nature, have cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Over the past three hundred years, these tiny patches of land, often born from necessity and shaped by precarity, immigration and environmental crisis, have thrived by recycling nutrients and remedying contaminated soil, transforming how we think about our relationship to the earth. Tiny Gardens Everywhere is a hymn to community, repair and the quiet revolutions that begin when someone plants a seed in unloved ground. 'Engaging and inspiring. A fascinating history into the quietly radical role of allotments ... Superb' Chris Fitch
'A kind of updated urban Berry' Los Angeles Review of Books
'She deftly combines ... pressing ecological concerns with an absorbing narrative history' Country Life

Portrait

Kate Brown is a Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of four previous prize-wining books, including A Biography of No Place, which won the George Louis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association, Plutopia, which won the Dunning and Beveridge prizes from the American Historical Association and Manual for Survival, which was a finalist for the 2020 NBCC Award. She currently plants her gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts and in Vermont.

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