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Database research record2002·USA (New York City)

Conflicting Rights to the City in New York's Community Gardens

Lynn A. Staeheli, Don Mitchell, Kristina Gibson

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Analyzes the Giuliani administration's 1998–1999 policy of transferring community gardens to housing development and auctioning 100+ gardens, exposing how a city 'greening then privatizing' policy reversed itself and treated public gardens as disposable exchange-value assets.