A Place in their Image

Urban Farm DB summary

A book chapter on community gardens in New York City, United States, analyzes the formation, boundaries, and shared social visions of the groups that produce them, examining three structural units — garden groups, neighborhood coalitions, and citywide New York City gardeners. It finds that neighborhood coalitions provide the organizing platform for struggles to save gardens, and that group size matters because it translates into funding and political leverage within the community-garden world.