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DOI10.1080/24694452.2022.2085655
Infrastructuring Gardens: The Material Politics of Outdoor Water Conservation in Los Angeles
Meilinger, Valentin; Monstadt, Jochen
通讯作者Meilinger, V
来源期刊ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS
ISSN2469-4452
EISSN2469-4460
出版年2023
卷号113期号:1页码:206-224
英文摘要Historically, urban developers, politicians, and public water utilities have invented Los Angeles as a semitropical oasis in a dry climate. During the California drought of 2011 through 2016, however, the city's residential gardens became a new frontier of water conservation policy. Water agencies started to subsidize the replacement of lushly irrigated lawns with California Friendly (R) landscapes, thereby endorsing a technology-centered infrastructuring of gardens to increase water conservation. This approach contrasts with California native plant gardening promoted by nature conservationists, which uses vernacular horticultural techniques to restore native plant biodiversity and reduce irrigation. The article shows that each approach has important political implications for urban space and water use, the value accorded to nature and gardening work, and relations between citizens and experts. Analyzing the differences between these approaches, we critically interrogate Los Angeles's modern infrastructure regime that shapes water conservation policy. Particular attention is paid to how new material objects, knowledges, and practices in gardening recompose relationships between water, plants, technology, humans, and urban space. We argue that the notion of infrastructuring gardens offers a fruitful lens for ascertaining how expert cultures shape urban environmental change and how alternative gardening practices (re)produce urban nature differently.
英文关键词infrastructure Los Angeles material politics urban gardens water
类型Article
语种英语
收录类别SSCI
WOS记录号WOS:000836037000001
WOS关键词ECOLOGY ; TECHNOLOGY ; XERISCAPE ; NATURES
WOS类目Geography
WOS研究方向Geography
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/395320
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Meilinger, Valentin,Monstadt, Jochen. Infrastructuring Gardens: The Material Politics of Outdoor Water Conservation in Los Angeles[J],2023,113(1):206-224.
APA Meilinger, Valentin,&Monstadt, Jochen.(2023).Infrastructuring Gardens: The Material Politics of Outdoor Water Conservation in Los Angeles.ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS,113(1),206-224.
MLA Meilinger, Valentin,et al."Infrastructuring Gardens: The Material Politics of Outdoor Water Conservation in Los Angeles".ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS 113.1(2023):206-224.
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