Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe

Bell, Simon; Fox-Kaemper, Runrid; Keshavarz, Nazila; Benson, Mary; Caputo, Silvio; Noori, Susan; Voigt, Annette

doi:10.4324/9781315686608

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“…PROVE is a national, emblematic short food chains enterprise-oriented initiative, connecting producers directly with consumers (PROVE, 2017), and it will be referred to further below. European research programmes such as Cost Urban Allotments Garden in European Cities (2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016), and Cost Urban Agriculture Europe (2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016), which integrated Portuguese teams and initiatives, played a significant role in connecting Portuguese UA initiatives and debates with those taking place in other European countries (Bell et al, 2016. Still, the process takes time and needs a lot of UA advocacy.…”

Section: Portugal Slowly Returning To Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping urban agriculture in Portugal: Lessons from practice and their relevance for European post-crisis contexts

Delgado

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Section: Portugal Slowly Returning To Agriculturementioning

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Mapping urban agriculture in Portugal: Lessons from practice and their relevance for European post-crisis contexts

Delgado

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Besides exploring the social, environmental and other benefits of allotments, their incorporation into urban planning and urban fabric were also investigated. They valorised their research in the book 'Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe' (Bell et al, 2016).…”

Section: Urban Agriculture Research In Europementioning

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The geography of urban agriculture: New trends and challenges

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Rojo

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Currently, there is no leading spatial planning strategy for allotment gardens and there is no European national thinking or standards. Allotment gardens are temporarily used pieces of land -until there appear other ideas of spatial planning (Bell et al 2016).…”

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Family allotment gardens - the case of the Poznań agglomeration

Szczepańska

2017

Eur. XXI

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Abstract. In many European countries horticultural production in cities occupies a special position in their spatial policies and is financially supported by their authorities. Today, it is emphasised that urban land in agricultural use performs not only productive and economic functions, but also many more functions of great importance to a city, including ecological, health-and landscape-related, recreational, and social ones. In Poland, after the period of economic and political transformation, one can observe a dynamic expansion of urban areas and their strong pressure on farmland most valuable in productive and landscape terms. In conceptions and documents on spatial development of urbanised areas, agricultural functions tend to be marginalised or perceived as specific to rural areas. A special form of urban horticulture is gardening, including allotment gardens, which have a rich tradition and a history more than a hundred years long. The reasons for the appearance and development of allotment gardens should be sought in socio-economic changes associated with the industrialisation period. What is alarming today, is the opinion that those plots of land supposedly restrict the spatial development of urbanised areas. In addition to their numerous socio-economic functions, allotments are an important element in the implementation of the idea of sustainable development, and as such they should play a special role in the spatial policy of urban areas. The main goal of this paper is to present the development of family allotment gardens in Poland and their current number, structure and location in the Poznań agglomeration. An attempt was made to formulate recommendations for a spatial policy of the agglomeration and towards this goal data obtained from Polish Association of Allotment Holders and Central Statistical Office was analysed. In addition, field studies and survey research were conducted.

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Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe

Cited by 90 publications

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Mapping urban agriculture in Portugal: Lessons from practice and their relevance for European post-crisis contexts

Mapping urban agriculture in Portugal: Lessons from practice and their relevance for European post-crisis contexts

The geography of urban agriculture: New trends and challenges

Family allotment gardens - the case of the Poznań agglomeration

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