American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn
Essentially, Steinberg attempts to explain why so many Americans are obsessed with their lawns by recounting a series of successive events supplemented with a series of related, but divergent, topics-developments at golf courses, hazards associated with lawn mowers and leaf blowers, environmental co...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of popular culture 2007, Vol.40 (1), p.177-178 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Essentially, Steinberg attempts to explain why so many Americans are obsessed with their lawns by recounting a series of successive events supplemented with a series of related, but divergent, topics-developments at golf courses, hazards associated with lawn mowers and leaf blowers, environmental consequences of over-fertilization and over-watering, and emerging alternatives to the verdant carpet aesthetic-are included. |
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| ISSN: | 0022-3840 1540-5931 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00363.x |