Urban garden as lived space: Informal gardening practices and dwelling culture in socialist and post-socialist Belgrade

Djokić, Vladan; Trajković, Jelena Ristić; Furundžić, Danilo S.; Krstić, Verica; Stojiljković, Danica

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2017.05.014

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“…Urban gardens are praised as places of community empowerment (Okvat and Zautra, 2011), social cohesion (Veen, 2015), and inclusion and integration (Koopmans et al, 2017). They foster urban dwellers' senses of belonging (Djokić et al, 2017), home (Bhatti and Church, 2001) and placemaking (Koopmans et al, 2017).…”

Section: Urban Gardens As New Sociationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such argumentation is neither new, nor specific to the Czech Republic: for example, Borčić et al (2015, p. 53) explain that during state socialism, Zagreb's illegal urban gardens were in stark contrast with its newly-constructed buildings, and thus, they also constituted a discursive opposite to the ideas of (socialist) modernity. Similarly, Djokić et al (2017) state that although modernist planning visions for Belgrade emphasised contact with nature as a part of the modernisation process, urban gardens were often marginalised due to their association with rural areas 14 .…”

Section: Allotment Gardens As Non-urban Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The countryside in the city? Rural-urban dynamics in allotment gardens in Brno, Czech Republic

Sovová

Krylová

2019

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The position of urban allotments in the rural-urban spectrum is evaluated in this paper, which contributes to literatures on urban gardening, as well as contemporary rural-urban dynamics. Historically, European allotments can be seen as a product of urbanisation. At the same time, they embody a number of “non-urban” characteristics that create the impression of “the countryside in the city”. This research project investigates how the urban and the rural are materialised, represented and practised in five allotment sites in Brno, Czech Republic. We follow three main lines of enquiry where the urban and the rural seem to meet: the physical environment of the allotments; the social life of these spaces; and food production as one of their core functions. Critical reflection of the rural-urban perspective advances our understanding of urban gardens, while, at the same time, allotments offer an example of hybrid spaces, which, in turn, contribute to discussions on current cities and countrysides. Overcoming the urban-rural dichotomy could facilitate the inclusion of urban gardening in contemporary cities.

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Section: Urban Gardens As New Sociationsmentioning

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Section: Allotment Gardens As Non-urban Environmentmentioning

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The countryside in the city? Rural-urban dynamics in allotment gardens in Brno, Czech Republic

Sovová

Krylová

2019

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Therefore, the decision was made to investigate the situation of allotment gardens in other European countries. Table 1 illustrates the selected criteria characterizing the legal and factual status of allotment gardens in some European countries, developed based on [29,30,33,34,[42][43][44].…”

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“…As far as changes in the area of allotment gardens in the analyzed countries are concerned, the situation is stable only in Austria and Germany where the majority of allotment gardens are located on municipally owned land, and have highly evolved organizational forms to protect allotment gardens from conversion into building sites or road infrastructure [30,34]. In other countries, there is an unfavorable tendency to decrease the areas of allotment gardens [27,29,[42][43][44]. This results from the investment-attractive location of these allotments in cities on the one hand (publications), and the decreased interest in such leisure activities among the younger generation on the other [44].…”

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An Analysis of the Changes in the Structure of Allotment Gardens in Poland and of the Process of Regulating Legal Status

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Kwartnik-Pruc

2018

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The space occupied by allotment gardens constitutes a special element of green infrastructure and it is important for the implementation of the idea of sustainable urban development. The areas occupied for this specific purpose are decreasing throughout Europe, in those countries where allotment gardens have a long tradition and their existence is regulated by law. The aim of this research is to analyze the data on the number and area of allotment gardens, their distribution across Poland and within the exemplary city, as well as to analyze the process of regulating the legal status of the land occupied by allotment gardens. The research defined the number and area of family allotment gardens in Poland, the range of the claims against family allotment gardens and types of entities filing these claims across the country. The performed research study found that the land occupied by family allotment gardens requires protection and regulation of its legal status, which is difficult to carry out due to various entities submitting claims to these areas resulting from their attractive location in cities. The publication proposes system solutions that guarantee protection of allotment gardens, maintenance of the status quo and preservation of their current boundaries.

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“…In the context of the Global North, the term urban agriculture carries an inherent contradiction resulting from the modernist opposition between the city and the countryside, in which food production is inseparably linked with the latter (Djokić et al, 2018;Tornaghi, 2014). In addition, the term agriculture is reserved for professionalized -and by extension also market-based -food production (Taylor and Lovell, 2014;Tornaghi, 2014).…”

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Grow, share or buy? Understanding the diverse economies of urban gardeners

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1 1.1 The search for a 'different' food system 4 1. 1. 1 AFNs as a response to the problems of the conventional food system 4 1.1.2 What is mainstream, alternative and ethical? The problem of reflexivity and normativity 5 8.4 Turning the garden into a food source: How does FSP work? 8.5 Seasonality 8.6 Reflections on practice theory 8.7 Reflections on the diverse economies framework 160 Conclusion: Ordinary practices, extraordinary economies References 169 Summary Shrnutí 183 Samenvatting Appendix 1: Interview guide used for the first round of interviews 191 Acknowledgements About the author 196 8 9 2 My own MSc thesis dealt with urban allotments as spaces of alternative food production (Sovová, 2015). Other master's theses were written on community gardens (Malá, 2015), the importance of gardens in the life of elderly women (Plošková, 2015), a conflict over the elimination of urban allotments in Brno (Hošková, 2011), and the use of agrochemicals in hobby gardens (Hrazdírová, 2010), to name just a few. 3 I understand an allotment garden as a piece of land divided into plots which are tended by individual gardeners. In comparison, a community garden is a plot cultivated jointly by a group of people. Both allotment gardens and community gardens can be categorized as types of urban gardening, together with home gardens in the city, guerrilla gardening and other forms of non-commercial food growing in urban settlements. Urban agriculture is a broader term that covers both private and commercial food production practised in cities. 4 Professional farmers were excluded from the sample.

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Urban garden as lived space: Informal gardening practices and dwelling culture in socialist and post-socialist Belgrade

Cited by 32 publications

References 21 publications

The countryside in the city? Rural-urban dynamics in allotment gardens in Brno, Czech Republic

The countryside in the city? Rural-urban dynamics in allotment gardens in Brno, Czech Republic

An Analysis of the Changes in the Structure of Allotment Gardens in Poland and of the Process of Regulating Legal Status

Grow, share or buy? Understanding the diverse economies of urban gardeners

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