The socio-cultural benefits of urban agriculture: a review of the literature

RT Ilieva, N Cohen, M Israel, K Specht, R Fox-Kämper… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite extensive literature on the socio-cultural services of urban open spaces, the role of
food-producing spaces has not received sufficient attention. This hampers advocacy for …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence on how urban gardens help citizens and cities to enhance sustainable development. Review and bibliometric analysis

A Ribeiro, L Madureira, R Carvalho - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper offers a comprehensive review on a bibliometric analysis of the published
research on the most recent generation of urban gardens. Urban gardens have been part of …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of recognizing difference: Rethinking Central and East European environmentalism

P Jehlička, K Jacobsson - Political Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
This article adds to the literature interrogating existing hierarchies in global knowledge
production by examining the dominant research on post-1989 Central and East European …

Metal (loid) concentrations, bioaccessibility and stable lead isotopes in soils and vegetables from urban community gardens

E Hiller, Z Pilková, L Filová, M Mihaljevič, V Špirová… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Community gardens are “green oases” of recent cities with many benefits for human society.
From a human health perspective, these benefits can be damaged by chemical …

Social sustainability through social interaction—A national survey on community gardens in Germany

N Rogge, I Theesfeld, C Strassner - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Community gardening has become a growing movement in cities all over the world, where
these diverse collectively managed spaces provide various economic, ecological, and social …

Gated gardens: Effects of urbanization on community formation and commons management in community gardens

M Egerer, M Fairbairn - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
Community gardens are often positioned as spaces where urban people can build
community, reclaim common space, and reassert a “right to the city” in urban landscapes …

Community gardens as local learning environments in social housing contexts: Participant perceptions of enhanced wellbeing and community connection

T Gray, D Tracey, S Truong, K Ward - Local environment, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Urban community gardens provide learning environments for diverse groups, including
those who may be experiencing health and social inequalities such as residents in social …

Chinese residents' perceived ecosystem services and disservices impacts behavioral intention for urban community garden: An extension of the theory of planned …

C Wu, X Li, Y Tian, Z Deng, X Yu, S Wu, D Shu, Y Peng… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urban community gardens (UCGs), greenspace cultivated and managed for vegetables by
local communities, provide substantial ecosystem services (ES) and are warmly welcomed …

Categorizing urban commons: Community gardens in the Rhine-Ruhr agglomeration, Germany

N Rogge, I Theesfeld - International Journal of the Commons, 2018 - JSTOR
Urban gardening has become a growing international movement. Many urban gardens are
established, organized, and managed collectively as commons. Particularly in developed …

The new urban agricultural geography of Shanghai

D Ding, P Liu, N Ravenscroft - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural geography has remained largely trapped in a neoclassical economic paradigm
in which farm types have been understood to be predominantly products of location and …