Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers
and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits …

Urban road verges can contain significant biodiversity, contribute to structural connectivity
between other urban greenspaces, and due to their proximity to road traffic are well placed …

The recent infatuation of urban governance with the ideologies of creativity has led to many
cities over the world being branded as 'Creative Cities'. This policy drive has been …

Public space is partly what makes cities, and as such it has been at the core of urban studies
and many disciplines ranging from sociology, geography, political science, anthropology to …

City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human
geography. While most of the world's population now lives in cities, the definition and …

I have visited numerous community gardens, allotments, Kleingärten, petits jardins and other
similarly named places across Europe. Each has its own distinctive character; each shares …

Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo. com/124247409
This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a …

In recent years, three superficially distinct urban subfields have made parallel efforts to
incorporate the city's traditional 'outsides' into urban research. Urban political ecology …

Against the background of a continuing interest in the everyday in international relations, this
article asks what kind of analytics upon and within the world mobilises one through the …

Unsanctioned guerrilla gardens, long a feature of North American cities, are frequently
planted as radical challenge to conventional urban land use. Over the past decade, a …