9781138921092

1138921092

9781315686608

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.

Allotment gardens > Europe.

Urban gardens > Europe.

Urban gardening > Social aspects > Europe.