Creative Natures. Community gardening, social class and city development in Vienna

Exner, Andreas; Schützenberger, Isabelle

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.04.011

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“…Education about the environment is the focus of another 111 projects. The aspects (Self-)sufficiency (85) as well as health and nutrition (36) were found to be of less importance. A similarly low ranking was obtained for improvement of the urban image (73) in terms of beautification of a city through greening.…”

Section: Urban Gardening Projects In Germanymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…This phenomenon of reconnection with nature [33] is described by [34] as 're-grounding'. Various studies in Germany [2,7,20], Switzerland [35], Austria [36], Italy [37], the US [30,33,38], and Canada [38] confirm the importance of community building and social exchange through gardening. The members participate in the projects because they enjoy gardening activities, being close to nature, working with living plants and animals, and 'getting their hands dirty' to create tangible (e.g., garden beds, food, flowers) and non-tangible outputs (e.g., meeting points, local recreation areas, knowledge sharing, participation in city development).…”

Section: Motivations For Urban Gardeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Gardening in Germany: Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle for the Societal Transition to a Bioeconomy

2019

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Urban gardening has the potential to turn the growing number of consumers into conscious producers by raising awareness of natural resource cycles, contributing to environmental conservation and climate change mitigation. This study investigated the motivations for urban gardening in Germany, based on an extensive review of 657 urban gardening project websites. The subsequent online survey of 380 project participants provides a characterization of the gardeners, giving insight into both cultivation methods and technologies used and the participants’ consumer behavior. It was shown that urban gardening has an influence on consumer behavior and can induce a change towards a more sustainable lifestyle. The gardens provide a space for the exchange of social values, knowledge and ideas on different ways of life among the diverse participants. Hence, urban gardening creates far more than just food; it influences society on multiple levels. Urban gardening can support the bottom-up societal transition towards a bioeconomy as both have common attributes. Finally, the paper proposes an innovative, resource-efficient cultivation system that may attract further societal groups to the urban gardening lifestyle, with the aim of fostering the development of the bioeconomy.

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Section: Urban Gardening Projects In Germanymentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Motivations For Urban Gardeningmentioning

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Urban Gardening in Germany: Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle for the Societal Transition to a Bioeconomy

2019

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“…The analysis of 51 community gardens adds a cross-continental comparison of six anglophone and Germanspeaking countries to previous research on the organisation of community gardens located in the same city or country (e.g. Jamison 1985;Exner and Schützenberger 2018;). The analysis is limited regarding several aspects.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…With the help of an online survey, analysed 123 community gardens located in Germany regarding social interaction and social sustainability. Exner and Schützenberger analysed eight respective six Viennese community gardens regarding the influence of local government and its homogenising effect on the gardens' organisation (Exner and Schützenberger 2015) and differentiated them from allotment gardens (Exner and Schützenberger 2018). Ginn and Ascensão (2018) illustrated the divergence of Portuguese urban gardens from an abstract ideal of the commons.…”

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“…We identified a higher diversity of community garden organisations in the European gardens, many of them putting a particular focus on the inclusion of the bigger community. Community gardens in German-speaking countries have been described as "new (urban) gardens" (Appel et al 2011;Müller 2011) or "post-Fordist spaces" (Exner and Schützenberger 2018), which are characterised by diversity, creativity, self-organisation, ecology and the presence of political messages, which distinguishes them from allotments. The diversity of garden organisations and garden groups, already identified for German gardens by , could also be confirmed for the Swiss and Austrian gardens in our sample, whereas Spilkova (2017) assessed Prague's community garden groups as ethnically less diverse as in anglophone countries.…”

Section: Differences and Commonalities In Community Gardening Organismentioning

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Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

Göttl

Penker

2020

International Journal of the Commons

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Groups of urban gardeners collectively grow vegetables, fruits and flowers in an increasing number of community gardens all over the world. Despite a growing body of literature on community gardens, there is a particular gap for a transcontinental bigger N-study on the organisation of community gardening, which we want to fill with a comparative document analysis of 51 urban community gardens in six anglophone and German-speaking countries. Specifically, we want to understand how community gardens are organised as spaces for longterm collective action. We systematically collected and analysed documents such as membership rules, handouts to new members, formal statutes, or blog entries. A cluster analysis helped to identify three types of community garden organisations, which vary in terms of organisational form, membership and exclusion rules, individual versus collective cultivation of the garden area, and the degree of regulation, fees, and waiting lists. Our findings show that there is no single blueprint for a long-term community garden organisation, but that self-organisation or nested forms of organisation and more or less open social boundaries result in distinct places of collective gardening. Comparing organisational types across geographical contexts, the European gardens analysed showed bigger organisational diversity, more open social boundaries and more collectively used areas compared to North American gardens.

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Same, Same but Different? The ‘Right’ Kind of Gardening and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Urban Governance in the Post-socialist City

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Creative Natures. Community gardening, social class and city development in Vienna

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Urban Gardening in Germany: Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle for the Societal Transition to a Bioeconomy

Urban Gardening in Germany: Cultivating a Sustainable Lifestyle for the Societal Transition to a Bioeconomy

Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

Same, Same but Different? The ‘Right’ Kind of Gardening and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Urban Governance in the Post-socialist City

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