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1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
A history of urban gardens in Europe / Nazila Keshavarz and Simon Bell -- Part I. Urban allotment gardens in the European political, planning and legal sphere -- 2. The idea of allotment gardens and the role of spatial and urban planning / Matthias Drilling, Renata Giedych and Lidia Ponizy -- 3. Grassroots gardening movements: towards cooperative forms of green urban development? / Byron Ioannou, Nerea Moran, Martin Sondermann, Chiara Certoma and Michael Hardman -- 4. Political -economic urban restructuring: urban allotment gardens in the entrepreneurial city / Efrat Eizenberg, Simone Tappert, Nicola Thomas and Andis Zilans -- Part. II The ecology of urban allotment gardens -- 5. Ecosystem services from urban gardens / Johannes Langemeyer, Monika Joanna Latkowska and Erik Nicolas Gomez-Baggethun -- 6. Environmental pressures on and the status of urban allotments / Andrew S. Hursthouse and Teresa E. Leitao -- 7. Lessons learned: indicators and good practice for an environmentally-friendly urban garden / Annette Voigt and Teresa E. Leitao -- Part III. Spatial design aspects of urban allotment gardens -- 8. The position of urban allotment gardens within the urban fabric / Sandra Costa, Runrid Fox-Kamper, Russell Good and Ivana Sentic -- 9. Emergent approaches to urban gardening / Silvio Caputo, Eva Schwab and Kostas Tsiambaos -- 10. Allotment gardens as a challenge for an urban designer / Antoine Zammit and Ina Suklje-Erjavec -- Part IV. The social sphere of urban allotment gardens -- 11. Urban allotment garden: a case for place-making / Susan Noori and Mary Benson -- 12. Motivations behind urban gardening: 'here I feel alive' / Laura Calvet-Mir, Hug March, Helena Nordh, Jeanne Pourias and Barbora Cakovska -- 13. Building trust and social skills in urban allotment gardens / Tim Delshammar, Maria Partalidou and Rhys Evans |
| Summary |
The book is based on a European COST Action project, which brings together researchers and practitioners from all over Europe for the first detailed exploration of the subject on a continent-wide scale. It assesses the policy, planning and design aspects, as well as the social and ecological benefits of urban allotment gardening. Through an examination of the wide range of different traditions and practices across Europe, it brings together the most recent research to discuss the latest evolutions of urban allotment gardening and to help raise awareness and fill knowledge gaps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Allotment gardens -- Europe
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Urban gardens -- Europe
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Urban gardening -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Allotment gardens
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Urban gardens
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317415647 |
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9781317415640 |
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9781315686608 |
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1315686600 |
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