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Author Lang, Ursula, author.

Title Living with yards : negotiating nature and the habits of home / Ursula Lang
Published Montreal ; Kingston : London : Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

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Contents Cover -- LIVING WITH YARDS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE What Yards Do -- INTRODUCTION Living with Yards -- 1 Building Urban Habitats -- 2 Rhythms of Inhabitation -- 3 Chasing Yard Affects -- 4 Practising Property and Life in Common -- CONCLUSIONS Yard Futures -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion. As urban life is reimagined for greater sustainability, resilience, and adaptation, Living with Yards invites readers to more fully engage with the possibilities of how we can coexist with our urban habitats. Ursula Lang uses the yard as a faceted lens through which to examine the multiple and contradictory ways people live in urban environments, and how perceptions of those environments are shaped by contemporary environmental policies and projects. Visual ethnography and narrative illustrate how inhabitants of Minneapolis live with their yards as sites of social and environmental care while also negotiating difference. Throughout, Lang's subjects engage in diverse and creative everyday practices of cultivation and property ownership, often quite distinct from the environmental policies and projects in place. The process of reimagining cities as more sustainable and equitable must include knowledge of how people live within urban spaces. By conducting in-depth visits to more than forty yards and sharing her results, Lang provokes us to think about what else these realms of daily life might become. Living with Yards chronicles the interplay between the yard as habitat and our inhabitation of it, exploring the changes and innovations a better understanding of urban living might spark."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Great Migration
Henri Lefebvre
Kathleen Stewart
Midwest
Minneapolis
affect
backyard
climate change
commoning
commons
cultivation
daily life
emotional geography
environmental justice
ethnography
everyday life
front yard
garden
habitat
home grounds
housing
inhabitation
interview
landscape
lawn
management
native
phenomenology
place-based research
property
qualitative
racism
rain
redlining
residential
resilience
stormwater
sustainability
urban
visual
watershed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 20, 2022)
Subject Lawns.
Lawns -- Social aspects
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Sociology, Urban.
Urban ecological design.
City and town life.
urban environments.
urban sociology.
lawns (landscaped grass)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
City and town life
Lawns
Sociology, Urban
Urban ecological design
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780228009771
0228009774