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DOI	10.1080/24694452.2022.2085655
	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
ISSN	2469-4452
EISSN	2469-4460
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
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	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.