TINY GARDENS EVERYWHERE: A HISTORY OF URBAN RESILIENCE (HB)

From pre-industrial England to modern-day Ohio, via the Paris Commune, Soviet allotments in Estonia, the orchards tended by Black migrants in Washington and food forests in contemporary Amsterdam, ordinary people have cultivated life in the unlikeliest of places. Kate Brown unearths the long and battered story of gardeners and their gardens, asking what happens when these urban Edens are not seen as retreats from the city but become part of its social fabric, alive with histories of displacement, conflict and resistance.