Transitory gardens, uprooted lives

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Transitory gardens, uprooted lives

Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton

Yale University Press, c1993

  • : us (pbk.)
  • : uk (pbk.)

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: us (pbk.) ISBN 9780300057720

内容説明

In this book of photographs and commentary on gardens built by homeless or impoverished New York City inhabitants, Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton liberate the work garden from its transitional association with wealth and leisure, and connect it to a more ephemeral but not less powerful group of constructions made by people deprived of their basic needs. In their reuse of nearly everything discarded, their sparing use of water and plant materials and their economical treatment of space, these gardens speak the languages of our times. All the gardens documented here are or were on the Lower East Side of New York and were built by either the homeless or by tenement dwellers and squatters who appropriated the spaces and turned them to their own use. They are not subsistence gardens, but gardens made up of found objects in an effort to mark off a space for pleasure, social activity or private retreat.

目次

  • Part 1 Transitory Gardens. Part 2 Redefining Urban Gardens: Community Gardens - Tranquilidad, 9th Street Garden, 8th Street Garden
  • Appropriated Gardens - 10th Street Garden Between B and C, Anna's Garden
  • Squatters Gardens - Serenity, Foetus, Harmony. Part 3 The Gardens of the Homeless: Introduction - Garden Building Materials, Plants and Animals, Spaces
  • Individual Gardens - Jimmy's Garden, Nathaniel's Garden ("The Mayor"), James' Garden, Tony's Garden, Angelo's Garden, Pitts' Garden
  • The Destruction of a Garden - Vera's Story, Deana's Story, Pitts' Story, J and L's Story, Bushville, Guineo's Garden, Chabello's Garden, Juan's Garden and Fences, Pepe Otero and the Community Walk, Lisette's and Monin's Garden, The Hill, Gabriele's First Garden, Mr. Lee's First Garden, Gabriele's Second Garden, Louie's First Garden, Ivan's Garden, The Chinese Man's Garden Path, Mr. Lee's Second Garden, Louie's Second Garden.
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: uk (pbk.) ISBN 9780300063011

内容説明

Jimmy's garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan-an assortment of stones and garbage bags, five tires, a chair, a skid, a refrigerator shelf, some ailanthus trees and goldfish, a wooden fence, and a pond with water carried by hand from a nearby fire hydrant-was recently bulldozed by the city. Jimmy then disappeared. Anna's garden is surrounded by a tall chainlink fence and filled with a menagerie of dolls and stuffed animals. The animals are whole, the dolls are maimed. Anna is a recluse who speaks to no one. The neighbors say she was in a concentration camp as a child. Gardens have always been associated with wealth and leisure, viewed as an addition to home. In this remarkable book a landscape architect and a photographer show us, in word and pictures, gardens built by homeless or impoverished New York City inhabitants. Like traditional gardens, these spaces are designed for pleasure, social activity, or private retreat. Unlike traditional gardens, they are connected to a more active and ephemeral use of the land. Transitory gardens speak the language of our times: here we find the reuse of nearly everything discarded, a sparing use of water and plant materials, an economical treatment of space, and a penchant for icons, toys, flags, and symbols of freedom and nationality. The gardens expand our definition of what makes a garden and what its design means for its creator. Diana Balmori's commentary and Margaret Morton's photographs combine with the garden-makers' own descriptions to encourage us to take note of gardens grown in unlikely places, on abandoned, littered lots, bounded by debris. By focusing on what homeless people make not for material comfort but from social and spiritual need, the book offers insight into both the meaning of landscape and the place of a garden in the life of an individual under duress.

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