Political gardening. Transforming cities and political agency

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.