Jessica DeWitt is a historian of Canadian and American environmental history. She specializes in park history.
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Magazine“Pacifying the unruly city”
Official laws and social norms are wielded as tools of control to preserve urban parks as spaces for middle-class white settlers. Jessica DeWitt reviews On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land by Matt Hern, Selena Couture, Daisy Couture, and Sadie Couture.
