Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bell, Simon; Voigt, Annette; Noori, Susan; Caputo, Silvio; Benson, Mary; Keshavarz, Nazila; Fox-Kämper, Runrid

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317415633
• Artikelnr.: 44866391

Autorenporträt

Simon Bell is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia, and Director of the OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK. Runrid Fox-Kämper is an architect and Head of the research group 'Built Environment' at the ILS Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Aachen, Germany, and Chair of COST Action TU1201 Urban Allotment Gardens in European Cities. Nazila Keshavarz is a landscape architect and a research fellow at ILS Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Aachen, Germany. Mary Benson is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Silvio Caputo is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth, UK. Susan Noori is a social research consultant and an affiliated researcher with Birmingham School of Architecture, Birmingham City University, UK. Annette Voigt is Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword



Maluo Weirich, General Secretary of the Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux



Preface



David Crouch



Introduction



Simon Bell



1. A History of Urban Gardens in Europe



Nazila Keshavarz and Simon Bell



Part 1: 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, Lidia Ponizy



3. Grassroots Gardening Movements: Towards Cooperative Forms of Green Urban Development?



Byron Ioannou, Nerea Morán, Martin Sondermann, Chiara Certomà 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 2: The Ecology of Urban Allotment Gardens

5. Ecosystem Services from Urban Gardens



Andrew S. Hursthouse, Teresa E. Leitão, Annette Voigt, Avigail Heller, Béatrice Bechet and Paulo Brito da Luz



6. Environmental Pressures on and the Status of Urban Allotments



Andrew S. Hursthouse and Teresa E. Leitão



7. Lessons Learned: Indicators and Good Practice for an Environmentally Friendly Urban Garden



Annette Voigt, Teresa E. Leitão, Andrew S. Hursthouse, Ari Jokinen, Avigail Heller, Monika Latkowska, Paulo Brito da Luz, Yvonne Christ, Béatrice Béchet, Mart Külvik and Johannes Langemeyer





Part 3: Spatial Design Aspects of Urban Allotment Gardens

8. The Position of Urban Allotment Gardens within the Urban Fabric



Sandra Costa, Runrid Fox-Kämper, 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 4: 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 Cakovská



13. Urban Allotment Gardens Built for and by Means of Trust



Tim Delshammar, Maria Partalidou and Rhys Evans



Concluding Remarks



Runrid Fox-Kämper