From yard to garden : the domestication of America's home grounds / Christopher Grampp.

Main entry:

Grampp, Christopher.

Title & Author:

From yard to garden : the domestication of America's home grounds / Christopher Grampp.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Description:

xxiii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Center books on American places

Notes:
Series numbering taken from p. [280].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-269) and index.
From dooryard to urban yard -- The front yard beautiful -- The back yard sanctified -- The modern yard emerges -- A back yard family room -- The suburban yard under fire -- California and the inside-out house -- Sunset magazine and the outdoor room -- A private world -- Garden or desert? -- The common-interest landscape.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

For many Americans the home grounds - the yard space surrounding the single-family home - is a place to garden, a place to plant flowers or grow vegetables. In From Yard to Garden, Christopher Grampp adopts a much wider perspective, showing how the history of the American home garden is intertwined with the nation's evolving culture, economy, and character. Grampp argues that America's home grounds are, first and foremost, about "habitability"--That is, about how people dwell - and he reveals how Americans have constantly transformed their front and back yards into habitable outdoor spaces from the early 1800s to the present time.--inside jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781930066748
1930066740

Subject:

Gardening United States.
Gardens, American.
Gardens Design.
Landscape architecture.
Jardinage États-Unis.
Jardins américains.
Jardins Architecture.
Architecture du paysage.
landscape gardening.
Gardening.
Garten
Gartengestaltung
Gardens United States History.
Gardens United States Design History.
Gardens Social aspects United States.
Lawns United States History.
Landscape architecture United States History.
Architecture, Domestic United States History.
Middle class Dwellings United States History.
United States.
USA.

Added entries:

Center for American Places
Center books on American places.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258410
Call No.: NA44.G747.A35 2008
Status: Available

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