How Radical Gardeners Took Back New York City

• This video tells the stories of two influential women in New York, Hattie Carthan and Liz Christy, who worked tirelessly to improve their communities through gardening and greening abandoned urban areas.
• It provides the historical context for these events and the present-day benefits that remain for these urban communities.
  

Positives

• The interviews, maps, historical footage, and photographs make this video tangible and impactful.
• It highlights women, immigrant communities, communities of color, and low-income communities.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• There are ads before and during the video.
• The video content ends at 11 minutes, 53 seconds.
  

Differentiation

• Social studies, history, and civics classes could use this video when discussing redlining, the lack of trees and parks in low-income neighborhoods, and gentrification.
• Advanced students could explore this Google Earth resource about urban heat islands and come up with solutions that could be applied to the northeastern United States.
• To explore this topic further, consider using these StC lesson plans about redlining and green spaces and this video about the benefits of urban trees.
  

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