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Urban Gardening Realities: The Example Case Study of Portsmouth, England [PDF]

International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2015
This paper offers an empirical case study of the potential for urban gardening to contribute to individual food security. Food security generally encompasses both availability and accessibility.
Alan Hallsworth, Alfred Wong
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Evidence of COVID-19 pandemic influence on well-being produced by urban gardening: a before-after study

npj Urban Sustainability
The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that maintaining and increasing individual and community resilience is essential, particularly in cities. Access to urban green spaces such as parks and gardens supports resilience and well-being.
Laura S. Tuominen, Heikki Helanterä, Patrik Karell, Lauri Rapeli, Timo Vuorisalo, Jon E. Brommer   +5 more
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Imagining Urban Gardening Space : An Ethnographic Study of Urban Gardening in Sweden

, 2019
Urban gardening is a phenomenon that increasingly occupies the limited space in cities. In discourse, urban gardening is constructed as a positive element and as something that can build a producti ...
Åberg, Ida
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Urban Gardening

The Nomos of Images, 2016
Regina Foschiova Urban gardening aka Guerilla gardening is a kind of gardening that takes place in cities and towns, on grounds which by law do not belong to the people who practice the gardening.
kaaphen
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Urban Gardening. Eine soziokulturelle Betrachtung neuer Gartenformen

Facta Simonidis, 2013
The following article deals with the phenomenon of urban gardening with a specific focus on Germany. Part I defines and categorizes the main forms of non-economically motivated gardening in urban public space, works out its core attributes and shows its
Marta Bobowski
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Influence of urban gardening conditions on the concentration of antioxidant secondary plant metabolites in kale

Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic urban gardening became popular across the globe. Leafy vegetables supplement the daily diet and contribute to consumers health. Within the last decade kale (Brassica oleracea var.
Marie Bayer , Susanne Neugart, Tobias Pöhnl   +2 more
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Allotment gardening and health: a comparative survey among allotment gardeners and their neighbors without an allotment [PDF]

, 2010
Background The potential contribution of allotment gardens to a healthy and active life-style is increasingly recognized, especially for elderly populations. However, few studies have empirically examined beneficial effects of allotment gardening. In the
van Dillen Sonja ME, Vries, S., de, Dillen, S.M.E., van, van den Berg Agnes E, Marijke van Winsum-Westra, Sonja ME van Dillen, van Winsum-Westra Marijke, Berg, A.E., van den, de Vries, S., de Vries Sjerp, Sjerp de Vries, van Winsum-Westra, M., Agnes E van den Berg, van den Berg, A.E., van Dillen, S.M.E., Winsum-Westra, M., van   +15 more
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'Cultivating health' : therapeutic landscapes and older people in northern England. [PDF]

, 2004
While gardening is seen, essentially, as a leisure activity it has also been suggested that the cultivation of a garden plot offers a simple way of harnessing the healing power of nature (The therapeutic garden, Bantam Press, London, 2000).
Milligan, Christine, Bingley, Amanda, Gatrell, Anthony   +2 more
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Urban Gardening in Graz

, 2016
This thesis focuses on the practice of urban gardening or urban agriculture in the city of Graz. The main focus is on how these projects are realised, how they are maintained, what problems arise while running an urban gardening project and which kind of benefits those projects yield.
Redlbacher, Christopher
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Sustainability potentials of peri-urban gardening in the context of post-socialist extended urbanization: a case from Budapest

, 2023
As urban gardening gains visibility as a potential element of building social and ecological sustainability in face of the climate crisis, a growing literature on food self-provision in Central and Eastern Europe (e.g. Daněk et al.
Gagyi, Agnes,, Vigvári, András
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