Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Chiara Certoma; Chiara Tornaghi

doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1053724

Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Chiara Certoma, Chiara Tornaghi

Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

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Abstract

In the last decade a large variety of grassroots actors - urban harvesters, guerrilla gardeners, community growers and landsharers – have been promoting a diversified set of projects that, while interstitial and very often considered ‘residual’, are nonetheless significantly challenging the mainstream place-making of cities in the Global North, and sometimes changing the face of the neighbourhoods in which they are located.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1123-1131
Number of pages	9
Journal	Local Environment
Volume	20
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2015.1053724
Publication status	Published - 4 Sep 2015

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