Power at the Roots

Power at the Roots PDF Author: Miranda J. Martinez
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739146262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
This book is about community gardens and the struggles to save them from gentrified redevelopment in New York City's Lower East Side. It is a vivid account of the community garden preservation movement, focusing on how working-class Puerto Rican and middle-class white gardeners waged the struggle against displacement by inserting themselves into local politics and development to change the calculus of real estate and housing policies.