Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century.
As the city\'s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollabl.
Cialdella argues Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city\'s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality.
The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the City of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan.
Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century