![]() Unlike traditional gardens, they are connected to a more active and ephemeral use of the land. Like traditional gardens, these spaces are designed for pleasure, social activity, or private retreat. 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. Gardens have always been associated with wealth and leisure, viewed as an addition to home. The neighbors say she was in a concentration camp as a child. The animals are whole, the dolls are maimed. ![]() Anna's garden is surrounded by a tall chainlink fence and filled with a menagerie of dolls and stuffed animals. 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. ![]()
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