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DESCRIPTION:Brown’s new book\, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past\, Presen
 t and Future of the Self-Provisioning City\, follows plants and people who
  tended them through 20th-century urban history. How essential were welfar
 e landscapes to sustain increasingly unsustainable urban conglomerations i
 n Europe and North America? Urban gardeners in the long 20th century accom
 plished many of the goals of food sustainability reformers today. They pro
 duced local\, diverse\, organic food on marginal land with short market ch
 ains and few post-harvest food losses. Growers recycled the wealth of nutr
 ients generated in urban households and remediated contaminated earth\, wh
 ich in turn disrupted the metabolic rift that impoverished soils and fuele
 d colonization elsewhere. Gardeners’ technologies produced economies\, e
 cologies\, and nutrients that engineered humans to be at the center of the
 ir environments\, adapted to it\, belonging.\n\nKate Brown is the Thomas M
 . Siebel Distinguished Professor in History of Science at MIT. Brown’s b
 ooks have won numerous prizes. A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Border
 land to Soviet Heartland (Harvard 2004) won the American Historical Associ
 ation’s George Louis Beer Prize for the Best Book in International Europ
 ean History. Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Sov
 iet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford 2013) was awarded the America
 n Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge and John H. Dunning Prize
 s for the best book in American history\, the George Perkins Marsh Prize f
 rom the American Society for Environmental History\, the Ellis W. Hawley P
 rize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH)\, the Wayne S. Vuc
 inich Book Prize of the Association for Slavic Studies\, East European\, a
 nd Eurasian Studies\, and the Robert G. Athearn Prize from the Western His
 tory Association. Brown was awarded the Heldt Prize from the Association f
 or Women in Slavic Studies for both books. Dispatches from Dystopia: Histo
 ries of Places Not Yet Forgotten (University of Chicago Press 2015) was se
 lected for Atlantic Monthly’s “Best Books We Read in 2016” list. In 
 2015\, Brown was the recipient of the University of Maryland Regent’s Aw
 ard for Excellence in Research. In 2017\, Brown was awarded the Berlin Pri
 ze by the American Academy in Berlin.  Her books have been translated into
  a variety of East European languages\, Chinese\, Japanese and French.
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SUMMARY:Humanities Center: Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past\, Present and 
 Future of the Self-Provisioning City with Dr. Kate Brown
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 y-gardens-everywhere-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-self-provisioning-
 city-with-dr-kate-brown
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