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Summary:

In this book urban gardening is critically discussed as socio-political action which addresses spatial justice as well as social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Runrid Fox- Kämper
• Urban gardening and the quest for just uses of space in Europe / Chiara Certomà, Martin Sondermann and Susan Noori
• Conflation in political gardening : concepts and practice / Lucy Rose Wright and Ross Fraser Young
• City wastelands : creating places of vernacular democracy / Beata J. Gawryszewska, Maciej Łepkowski and Anna Wilczyńska
• Temporary urban landscapes and urban gardening : re- inventing open space in Greece and Switzerland / Sofia Nikolaidou
• Urban gardening and spatial justice from a mid- size city perspective : the case of Ortobello Urban Garden / Giuseppe Aliperti and Silvia Sarti
• Community gardening for integrated urban renewal in Copenhagen : securing or denying minorities' right to the city? / Parama Roy
• Limits to growth? Why gardening has limited success growing inclusive communities / Hannah Pitt
• Is urban gardening a source of wellbeing and just freedom? A Capability Approach based analysis from the UK and Ireland / Alma Clavin
• Food for all? Critically evaluating the role of the Incredible Edible movement in the UK / Michael Hardman, Mags Adams, Melissa Barker and Luke Beesley
• The foreseen future of urban gardening / Efrat Eizenberg.

Contributors:

Certomà, Chiara , editor

Noori, Susan , editor

Sondermann, Martin , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019 — ISBN 1526126095; OCLC Number 1053903050)

Subjects:

Urban gardening — Social aspects

Urban gardening

Social aspects

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on September 24, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 168 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

SB454.3.S63 U73 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781526144706 (electronic book)
1526144700 (electronic book)
9781526126108 (electronic book)
1526126109 (electronic book)
9781526126115 (electronic publication)
1526126117 (electronic publication)
9781526126092 [Invalid]
1526126095 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1088892452