Milano, coltivazione urbana e percorsi di vita in comune. Note da una ricerca in corso

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Francesca Cognetti ◽  
Serena Conti
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Social Promotion ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Common Space ◽  
Life Paths ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The City

This paper brings to light a depiction of Milan made of small areas connected with the theme of urban agriculture and ‘spaces to care for' within the city. They are projects of different types which have in common the idea of connecting the practice of cultivation with the construction of shared life paths. Thinking which interprets horticulture as a device for ‘cultivating others' is therefore central here. It is a system for social promotion and inclusion, an instrument to practice forms of dissent, a platform for strengthening bonds, a common space for everyday life. In this sense the English community gardens defi nition, which although it places a perhaps excessive emphasis on community aspects, seems apparently more appropriate for referring to this type of experience connected with forms of social participation and a new relationship with the local community.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Urban Agriculture in São Paulo, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6185
Author(s):  
André Ruoppolo Biazoti ◽  
Angélica Campos Nakamura ◽  
Gustavo Nagib ◽  
Vitória Oliveira Pereira de Souza Leão ◽  
Giulia Giacchè ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Sales Channels ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

During the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers worldwide were greatly affected by disruptions in the food chain. In 2020, São Paulo city experienced most of the effects of the pandemic in Brazil, with 15,587 deaths through December 2020. Here, we describe the impacts of COVID-19 on urban agriculture (UA) in São Paulo from April to August 2020. We analyzed two governmental surveys of 2100 farmers from São Paulo state and 148 from São Paulo city and two qualitative surveys of volunteers from ten community gardens and seven urban farmers. Our data showed that 50% of the farmers were impacted by the pandemic with drops in sales, especially those that depended on intermediaries. Some farmers in the city adapted to novel sales channels, but 22% claimed that obtaining inputs became difficult. No municipal support was provided to UA in São Paulo, and pre-existing issues were exacerbated. Work on community gardens decreased, but no garden permanently closed. Post COVID-19, UA will have the challenge of maintaining local food chains established during the pandemic. Due to the increase in the price of inputs and the lack of technical assistance, governmental efforts should be implemented to support UA.

scholarly journals SEEDING THE CITY: HISTORY AND CURRENT AFFAIRS OF URBAN AGRICULTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARINA JÚLIA PENSA CORRÊA ◽  
KELLY CRISTINA TONELLO ◽  
ERNEST NNADI ◽  
ALEXANDRA GUIDELLI ROSA
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
City History ◽  
Pollution Impacts ◽  
The City ◽  
Very High

Abstract Urban agriculture has its history tied to the development of civilizations. Aiming to identify the benefits generated by the practice and its motivations, a literature review and later analysis of articles describing current experiences, management characteristics and organization aspects was carried out. In countries with a very high HDI, community gardens and the well-being of the population are prominent themes. Countries with high HDI focus on soil contamination and mitigation of pollution impacts, as countries with an average HDI has as main theme the sustainability of the practice. Finally, low HDI countries discuss their importance for food security. Regardless of the objectives that motivate urban agriculture and research in the area, is evidenced its contribution to the environmental, social and economic quality of cities.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Agriculture as Functional Hybrid Unit—Issues of Urban Resilience

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
Magdalena Grochulska-Salak ◽  
Aleksandra Nowysz ◽  
Anna Tofiluk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Water Reuse ◽  
Water Retention ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Compact City ◽  
The City

The aim of the research is to present a review of urban agriculture as synergic green and blue infrastructure solutions and to evaluate modern hybrid units with biomass and food production, and water retention in urbanized areas. The synergy between technologies of biomass production and water reuse provides the basis for the idea of self-sufficient urban units and sustainable agriculture. The research work defines the criteria and typology for urban resilience solutions. The analyses concern the correlation between production, management, retention, and reuse of water as a part of solutions for the model of a sustainable urban agriculture system in a compact city. The obtained results describe typology for cultivation and production in the modern city. Creating a resilient city connected with requirements posed by civilization concern changes in functional and spatial structure of the compact city. The discussion is supplemented with conclusions to the issue of synergy in urban planning, architecture, and engineering solutions. The article describes implementation technologies for city resilience in the context of agricultural production, energy and water management for the local community, and the ecosystem services in the city.

Motivations for Investing in Allotment Gardening in Dublin: A Sociological Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Kettle
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
The City

In recent years, Dublin has witnessed a demonstrable rise in urban agriculture (UA) initiatives. Allotments and community gardens are emerging in abundance in the city and on its perimeter. Traditionally, allotments were associated with older men and lower socio-economic groups. However, recent practices indicate a significant shift in the traditional demographics engaging in practice. Those investing are increasingly younger, from the middle classes, and include more and more women. But what is motivating practice? What has caused this shift? And why are professionals in an advanced capitalist society choosing to cultivate food in and around the contemporary urban metropolis? Drawing on empirical investigations in Dublin between 2011 and 2013, this article argues that the revival of the urban allotment in Dublin after many years of abeyance represents a form of resistance to the dis-embedding processes associated with late and post modernity, and an explicit attempt by urban dwellers to (re)connect with traditional forms of knowledge, the land, and practice (food production systems), but primarily to (re)connect with others, to generate a sense of community, and to restore a sense of belonging in the city.

scholarly journals El proyecto urbano como experiencia colectiva, colaborativa, situada, perfomática y transdisciplinar.

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-183
Author(s):  
Luciana Lima ◽  
Verónica Susana Pastuszuk
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Processes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The City ◽  
La Plata City

The city we inhabit, the territory we share, it is nowadays under revision, and urbanism is central to these reflections. The experiences of “Territorio Tolosa” (Tolosa Territory), a collective project of urban contemplation and neighborhood transformation, comprised by architects, artists and the local community, which I have coordinated for the past five years. We have run walks around Tolosa, organized workshops, performances and different types of collective practices to re-signify the spaces we inhabit. Our research questions those architectures that support hegemonic ways of producing controlled and a priori spaces, proposing instead open processes to participatory practices, which include walks and collective mapping as ways of thinking about urbanism. In one hand, we want to explore procedures to deconstruct the traditional ways of producing architecture, based on individual skill, in order to promote them as collective processes, collaborative and transdisciplinary. On the other hand, we want to explore deeper into the architectures of delay, proximity and care, to enhance the pre-existing urban landscape and the sensitive encounter between people. Tolosa is neighborhood in La Plata city, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tolosa will be taken as the research focus, to rethink the neighborhood in the xxi century from feminist perspective.

The common green/common ground Performance Project: The Personal, the Political, the Gardens, and NYU

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
The Political ◽  
Community Activists ◽  
The Common ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
The City

When the landlords and the city began bulldozing community gardens, a group of NYU students and local community activists got together to protest and perform. The piece they made tracked the transformation of garbage-strewn lots into lush, vital, community havens—and cried out against the bulldozers lying in wait.

scholarly journals The Unwanted Heritage of Prefabricated Wartime Air Raid Shelters—Underground Space Regeneration Feasibility for Urban Agriculture to Enhance Neighbourhood Community Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 12238
Author(s):  
Paweł Matacz ◽  
Leszek Świątek
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Underground Space ◽  
Positive System ◽  
Port City ◽  
Underground Structures ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The City

The article deals with the problematic heritage associated with the system of Nazi German underground air raid shelters currently located within the Polish state, in the Baltic port city of Szczecin. The unwanted heritage has been inventoried, archival materials collected, and comparative analyses made of ways in which the underground space can be revitalised. An attempt was made to develop a typology of existing shelters and their locations. In order to overcome the negative associations with the warlike military space, positive system solutions were sought for the productive use of existing concrete structures located underground in central, easily accessible areas of the city districts. A process of upcycling the space was used to make ecologically efficient use of the material resources contained in the shelters. In order to activate the local community, a modular, hydroponic plant-growing system, adapted to the prefabricated spaces of the historical air raid shelters, was proposed. In this way, the central location of the underground structures within the boundaries of residential neighbourhoods was exploited. Such action strengthens the food sovereignty of the inhabitants, initiates bottom-up activity within the boundaries of the neighbourhood unit, and builds social ties in the spirit of a regenerative economy and positive sustainability.

City of Forests, City of Farms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay K. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Urban Forestry ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
The City

This book begins with the question of why PlaNYC2030—New York City’s municipal, long-term sustainability plan, launched during the Mayor Michael Bloomberg administration—had a robust urban forestry agenda, but lacked an urban agriculture agenda. PlaNYC launched the MillionTreesNYC campaign, investing over $400 million in city funds and leveraging a public-private partnership to plant one million trees citywide. Meanwhile, despite NYC having a long tradition of community gardening and burgeoning interest in local food systems, the plan contained no mention of community gardens or urban farms. In contrasting the top-down, centralized investment in the urban forest with the dispersed and decentralized social movement around urban agriculture, the book describes the ways in which political, discursive, and material processes intertwine to construct nature in the city. Urban greening unfolds through the strategic interplay of actors, the deployment of different narrative frames, and the mobilizing and manipulation of the physical environment—including other living, non-human entities. Understanding how and why the sustainability agenda is set and implemented provides crucial lessons to scholars, policymakers, and activists alike as they engage in the greening of cities.

Isolation and Diagnosis of Fungi from Samples of Spices in the City of Nasiriya

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Dilution Method ◽  
Local Markets ◽  
White Pepper ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
The City ◽  
Isolated Species

Examination of (35) samples of spices obtained from local markets for the purposes of isolating and diagnosing fungi growing on them. Anine isolates belonging to 13 different types of fungi were diagnosed by the standard dilution method with three replications, and it has been observed that the most samples from which the fungi were isolated is ginger. It was found that the most isolated species of fungi are Penicillium, Aspergillus, and Rizupes spp. A rare colony of fungi was observed, which indicates contamination of the spices under study with the fungus. The present study aims to identify the potential risks of the presence of fungi in spices and what may result from mycotoxins that may be the cause of many chronic diseases as a result of using these spices in large quantities. The study recommends limiting the use of contaminated spices, especially ginger, in preparing food and its uses, in addition to other types such as cloves, black and white pepper, and other types of spices found in the local markets, especially the expired ones.

Gardening as More than Urban Agriculture: Perspectives from Smaller Midwestern Cities on Urban Gardening Policies and Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Christopher Strunk ◽  
Ursula Lang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Vacant Lots ◽  
Urban Gardening ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Policies And Practices

For the most part, research and policymaking on urban gardening have focused on community gardens, whether in parks, vacant lots, or other public land. This emphasis, while important for many Midwestern cities, can obscure the significance of privately owned land such as front yard and back yard and their crucial connections with gardening on public land. In this case study, we examine how policies and practices related to gardening and the management of green space in two Midwestern cities exceed narrow visions of urban agriculture. The article explores the cultivation of vacant lot gardens and private yards as two modes of property in similar Midwestern contexts and argues that the management of green space is about more than urban agriculture. Instead, we show how urban gardening occurs across public/private property distinctions and involves a broader set of actors than those typically included in sustainability policies. Gardening also provides a key set of connections through which neighbors understand and practice sustainability in Midwestern cities.

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