Defining a Garden’s Purpose
...an one hour in each case.” – from Life at Home in the Twenty-first Century: 32 Families Open their Doors [italics mine] [italics mine] The unused yards I saw from the train and the ones in the UCLA study do serve a purpose. They are the legacy of mid 20th century suburbanization–the idea of combining country and city in a fantasy of being a petty king and queen of your own mini-real estate empire. Wouldn’t it be nice to give a better purpose to th...