Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens
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In: Sustainability Volume 12 / Issue 2 (2020-01-16) , S. 657; ISSN 2071-1050
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The paper examines factors that support or obstruct the development of urban community garden projects. It combines a systematic scholarly literature review with empirical research from case studies located in New Zealand and Germany. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of placemaking processes: urban community gardens are valuable platforms to observe space-to-place transformations. Following a social-constructionist approach, literature-informed enablers and barriers for the development of urban community gardens are analysed against perceived notions informed by local interviewees with regard to their biophysical and technical, socio-cultural and economic, and political and administrative dimensions. These dimensions are incorporated into a systematic and comprehensive category system. This approach helps observe how the essential biophysical-material base of the projects is overlaid with socio-cultural factors and shaped by governmental or administrative regulations. Perceptual differences become evident and are discussed through the lens of different actors.
@article{doi:10.17170/kobra-20200128964, author ={Wesener, Andreas and Fox-Kämper, Runrid and Sondermann, Martin and Münderlein, Daniel}, title ={Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens}, copyright ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/}, language ={en}, journal ={Sustainability}, year ={2020-01-16} }