Whose Green?

Urban green spaces serve as vibrant sites for community building, political activism, and the performance of cultural identity through everyday rituals. In New York, the casita garden, based on the Puerto Rican tradition of the casita del campo, has served as an important space to assert tradition and social autonomy. But it is threatened by forces at play in the city. (Yale Wheel, December 2009).

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