Power at the Roots: Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side Reviews

Power at the Roots: Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side

Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Miranda Martinez shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted themselves into local politics and development to create change. She demonstrates how real people are effective as social forces amid large scale urban change and looks at the complexities and contradictions involved in transformations of urban neighborhoods. One of the most important contributions of this study is

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