Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

Chiara Certoma, Chiara Tornaghi

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1123-1131
Number of pages9
JournalLocal Environment
Volume20
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Sep 2015

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Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency. / Certoma, Chiara; Tornaghi, Chiara.

In: Local Environment, Vol. 20, No. 10, 04.09.2015, p. 1123-1131.

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Certoma, C & Tornaghi, C 2015, 'Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency' Local Environment, vol. 20, no. 10, pp. 1123-1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2015.1053724
Certoma C, Tornaghi C. Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency. Local Environment. 2015 Sep 4;20(10):1123-1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2015.1053724
Certoma, Chiara ; Tornaghi, Chiara. / Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency. In: Local Environment. 2015 ; Vol. 20, No. 10. pp. 1123-1131.
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