The South Central Farm: Dilemmas in practicing the public

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 611-616

  Lawson, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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CULTURAL TRADITION; FARMING SYSTEM;

EID: 36749085219     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474007082297     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. A 1999 Los Angeles Regional Food Bank press packet included articles from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Tu Mundo. The author visited the site several times and spoke with gardeners informally. Also see H. Becerra, M. Garvey and S. Hymon, 'L.A. garden shut down: 40 arrested', Los Angles Times (14 June 2006);
2. J. Hoffman, 'L.A. urban farmers fight for community garden', The News Standard (5 April 2006), (http://newstandardnews.net/content/ index.cfm/items/3027/print-mode/true);
3. 'Daryl Hanna arrested', (14 June 2006), http://www.cnn.com/CNN/PROTEST;
4. 'South Central Farm', (21 December 2006), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ South_Central_Farm
5. D. Malakoff, 'What good is community greening?', Community greening review 5 (1995), pp. 4-11;
6. L. Lawson, City bountiful: a history of community gardening in America (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2005).
7. The scope of what is deemed public good has expanded with the recent Kelo v. City of New London Supreme Court case. The Dudley Street Initiative, a not-for-profit agency in Boston, has been granted eminent domain authority for local economic development through housing, community services, schools, community gardens, and public space.
8. J. Hoffman, C. Petit, et al., '14 acres conversations across chasms in South Central Los Angeles', Clamour 36 (21 December 2006), http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/36/people.php
9. American Community Gardening Association, National community gardening survey (ACGA Monograph, 1992, 1998).
10. R. Stapleton, 'Bringing peace to the garden of tranquility', Land and people 11(2) (1999), pp. 2-7.
11. H. Lefebvre, Critiques of everyday life (London, Verso, 1991);
12. J. Chase, M. Crawford and J. Kaliski, Everyday urbanism (New York, Monacelli Press, 1999).