Community Gardens of Residential Colonies in Urban Area

ISBN-13: 9783639370836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 124 str.

Maneesha Shukul;Himani Shah

Opis

Community Garden is a neighbourhood space designed, developed and managed by residents of a housing colony on a vacant land, enclosed and used by the residents of a particular colony. As the cities are becoming congested with reducing greenery, community gardens are one of the sources to bring some balance in the environment in the cities having high rate of air pollution. Community gardens provide psycho-social ,economic health and environmental benefits. A well designed, well developed and maintained community garden ensures its optimum utilization leading to users satisfaction It is essential know about the expectations of the users of community garden so as to make it more user-friendly rather than plan anything and give to the people. The book presents information about users,their satisfaction and expectations of residents of selected community gardens ,which can be used to plan other community gardens so as to make them more beautiful and functional.