The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces - from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces - have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as "guerrilla gardeners."The book focuses on groups in the English Midlands but the work is set in a broad international context and reveals how and why they undertake this illegal activity. Guerrilla gardening is usually viewed uncritically and promoted as a worthwhile activity: this study provides a more balanced evaluation and focuses on its contribution in terms of local...
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces - from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces - have been made more visually interesting ...
The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this research towards collective urban gardening in France, with some investigations in other European Union Member States and Brazil. This research was carried out within the framework of Kazan University (currently, the Institute of Administration and Territorial Development of the Federal University of Kazan) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). It enabled the creation of an international research network entitled...
The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this researc...
This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney's sprawling urban jungle.
This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers ...
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces - from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces - have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as "guerrilla gardeners." The book focuses on groups in the English Midlands but the work is set in a broad international context and reveals how and why they undertake this illegal activity. Guerrilla gardening is usually viewed uncritically and promoted as a worthwhile activity: this study provides a more balanced evaluation and focuses on its contribution in terms of local...
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces - from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces - have been made more visually interesting ...
The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this research towards collective urban gardening in France, with some investigations in other European Union Member States and Brazil. This research was carried out within the framework of Kazan University (currently, the Institute of Administration and Territorial Development of the Federal University of Kazan) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). It enabled the creation of an international research network entitled...
The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this researc...
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific evidence on the most suitable growing solutions, policies and potential benefits emerges.
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming project...
This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Part 2 deals with methods and tools for urban planning and local development, utilized to design and assess sustainable food systems.
This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Eur...
The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form in New York City's low-come neighborhoods like the South Bronx since the 1970s.
The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form ...