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Of good plants and useless weeds: planning as a spatial technology of the gardening state [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The article deploys Bauman’s metaphor of the ‘gardening’ state to consider the imbrication of planning and the dark side of modernity. It interrogates the public production and defence of urban spaces suitable for people deemed to have value.
Kamete, Amin Y.
core   +1 more source

Exploring the Potential Risk of Heavy Metal Pollution of Edible Cultivated Plants in Urban Gardening Contexts Using a Citizen Science Approach in the Project “Heavy Metal City-Zen”

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Urban gardening has become increasingly popular, creating green oases in cities; however, many of these activities are undertaken in areas of high traffic density or on ex-brown field sites. As a consequence, there are still some barriers to the adoption
E. Ziss   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE CLIMATE OF A LARGE CITY AND ECOCLINE ORDINATION OF ITS VEGETATION COVER

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2018
Large cities generate their own climate, which influences the distribution of vegetation cover and individual species population into separated ecological phytocoenotic zones ecoclines.
Volodymyr P. Kycheryavyj   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Du jardinage collectif au paysagisme bénévole

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2017
This paper addresses the institutionalisation and normalisation of urban gardening in municipal green space policies. It uses urban gardening as a lens onto the various shapes that corporeal participation in the making of cities takes.
Marion Ernwein
doaj   +1 more source

Insurgent participation: consensus and contestation in planning the redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof airport [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Despite decades of debate, participatory planning continues to be contested. More recently, research has revealed a relationship between participation and neoliberalism, in which participation works as a post-political tool—a means to depoliticize ...
Hilbrandt, Hanna
core   +2 more sources

No Buts About It...The Value of Urban Food Production: Response #4 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraphs: In their provocative essay, Alan Hallsworth and Alfred Wong (2013) contend that academics, activists, and policy makers exaggerate the benefits of urban food gardening.
Evan Weissman
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Landscapes in the Traditional Korean Residential Environment: Focus on the Joseon Dynasty

open access: yesLand, 2021
This study examines the sustainable landscapes displayed in traditional Korean houses of the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) by investigating urban agricultural practices implemented in the palace, private houses, and an imaginary garden (Uiwon).
Hyung-Suk Kim, Kyu-Won Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization and diversity of the market-gardening production systems and their interactions with urban and peri-urban environment in Southern-Benin, West Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The market-gardening production plays an important role in contribution to food availability. However this activity is limited by constraints and also generates harmful effects on health and environment. Thus to ensure the sustainability of this activity
Ahouangninou, Claude   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Seeds and the city: a review of municipal home food gardening programs in Canada in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, home food gardening articles have saturated popular media outlets. Home food gardening is more popular than ever, and community gardens and community greenhouses are at capacity with long waiting lists for ...
Janet Music   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socio-Cultural Appropriateness of the Use of Historic Persian Gardens for Modern Urban Edible Gardens

open access: yesLand, 2021
Historic gardens have the ability to provide several ecosystem services in cities, including provisioning services (i.e., food production). The historic gardens in Iran (known as “Persian Gardens”) have never been considered as places that could be used ...
Majid Amani-Beni   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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