Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit

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"Motor City Green" explores how Detroiters maintained green landscapes, including nature parks and utilitarian vegetable plots, throughout the 20th century. Author Joseph Stanhope Cialdella identifies personal investment and public projects, such as Belle Isle (1881) and Pingree's Potato Patches (1893), as contributing to the city's "perpetual state of ruin and repair." The work provides historical context for urban agriculture and environmentalism in Detroit.