Urban public spaces are sites of struggles over gentrification. In increasingly diverse cities,
these public spaces also host interactions among people of different class, race, ethnicity, …

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in the relationship between sites related to food
production, distribution, and consumption and the social interaction within these locations in …

The community garden movement in New York City, which began with individuals designing
and planting gardens on abandoned lots, grew into an urban environmental movement that …

In this paper, we aim to explore how community gardening can embed and foment grassroots
resistance to the privatization of urban space in the current configuration of a prolonged …

This chapter examines a recurring theme across the research sites regarding the public or
private nature of urban agricultures. Growers invest resources, labor, time, and emotion into …

In China, self-claimed vegetable lots are emerging in urban communities through the
appropriation of public green lands, a paralleled ‘guerrilla gardening’ phenomenon. However, …

‘I’ve thought about [Glasgow City Council’s] arrogance in just deciding that they were going
to set all this for building. And we’ve, the old committee established beyond doubt that this …

… “Visions of Public Space: Reproducing and Resisting Social Hierarchies in a Community
Garden.” Sociological Forum 30 (1): 209–227. Aptekar, Sofya. …

Chapter 4 deconstructs legally vacant spaces upon which two community gardens are sited:
the “Troy” Chavez Memorial Peace Garden and the Pecos Garden. I use this chapter to …

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 …