Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggles in the City & the World

This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the Supermarket to the World” ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others.Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggles in the City & the World, 1 was published 1999 under ISBN 9781570270925 and ISBN 1570270929.