Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse
residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are
regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property
lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion. As
urban life is reimagined for greater sustainability, resilience,
and adaptation, Living with Yards invites readers to more fully
engage with the possibilities of how we can coexist with our urban
habitats. Ursula Lang uses the yard as a faceted lens through which
to examine the multiple and contradictory ways people live in urban
environments, and how perceptions of those environments are shaped
by contemporary environmental policies and projects. Visual
ethnography and narrative illustrate how inhabitants of Minneapolis
live with their yards as sites of social and environmental care
while also negotiating difference. Throughout, Lang's subjects
engage in diverse and creative everyday practices of cultivation
and property ownership, often quite distinct from the environmental
policies and projects in place. The process of reimagining cities
as more sustainable and equitable must include knowledge of how
people live within urban spaces. By conducting in-depth visits to
more than forty yards and sharing her results, Lang provokes us to
think about what else these realms of daily life might become.
Living with Yards chronicles the interplay between the yard as
habitat and our inhabitation of it, exploring the changes and
innovations a better understanding of urban living might spark.
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