scholarly journals Urban Foodscapes and Greenspace Design: Integrating Grazing Landscapes Within Multi-Use Urban Parks

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Davis
Keyword(s):  
Community Gardens ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Movements ◽  
Grazing Lands ◽  
Developed Nations ◽  
The City

Since the early 2000s an increasing number of planning and design projects, within the spatial design fields of landscape architecture and urban design, have focused on food landscapes and their re-integration into the urban environment; particularly as a result of recent global movements toward creating more sustainable cities and human settlements. This article explores the potential contribution of grazing lands within cities of the Global North as a multi-beneficial layer in public greenspace design. Plant-based urban farms and community gardens have experienced significant growth within developed nations in recent years, in both scholarship and practice, however the design and implementation of integrated grazing lands within the urban zone has been largely left out. For much of the Global North animal agriculture is still considered primarily rural. This research considers the potential of integrating grazing lands within the city through multiuse greenspace design, and undertakes a case study design critique of Cornwall Park, Auckland where since 1903, the Park has provided urban grazing for sheep and cattle, alongside other land uses and experiences such as recreation, heritage, bio-diversity, and education. Undertaking a “descriptive critique” of Cornwall Park, and its 100 Year Master Plan, this research is intended to enhance, the understanding and role, grazing animals can play within public greenspace.

The art of imitating life: The potential contribution of biomimicry in shaping the future of our cities

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Taylor Buck
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Infrastructure Design ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

This paper discusses the significance of biomimicry as a design methodology within the context of urban infrastructure planning and design. The application of biomimicry principles to urban infrastructure problems is examined by analysing case studies that used biomimicry inspired designs rather than ‘mainstream’ infrastructure approaches. Biomimicry is presented as an ontology of the city that fosters innovative and collaborative urban infrastructure design and management, supplements dominant future city paradigms like the ‘smart’ city and is worthy of further, detailed study.

scholarly journals Reclaiming Urban Space: A Study of Community Gardens in Poznań

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Maćkiewicz ◽  
Raúl Puente Asuero ◽  
Krystyna Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Photographic Documentation ◽  
The City

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the presence of community gardens in urban spaces and the types of activities performed there, using the city of Poznań as a case study. First, based on interviews with representatives of selected non-governmental organisations, analyses of available Internet sources as well as our own field research, cartographic and photographic documentation, we identify community gardens in the space of the city and explore their formation process. In the course of our study we also concentrate on the type of garden location. In addition, we devote our attention to the gardens which have disappeared from the fabric of the city. Our study reveals that community gardens currently operating in Poznań are established in non-central locations. These gardens are scattered in various parts of the city. Only in the Łazarz district there are two community gardens. Most frequently, community gardens are established on plots between old blocks of flats and tenement houses. Two gardens are located on underdeveloped greenery near the Warta River and in two city parks. A detailed examination of the events held in the community gardens in the Łazarz district in the years 2014–2017 shows that they had a very diversified character. Both of them turned out to be multifunctional, i.e. hosted meetings devoted to agriculture and horticulture, environmental education, artistic events, DIY and recreation. However, the percentage of events in the structure of the meetings organised in the gardens differed considerably.

scholarly journals Elevated Highways and its Lost Spaces: A Review of Kuala Lumpur’s seldom seen

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ikhwan Nasir Mohamed Anuar ◽  
Raziah Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Community Needs ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
The City

The development of the urban highway in and around the city has created vast quantities of left over spaces that seldom integrated into formal planning and design. Vague on purpose, the interstitial spaces formed from these concrete “rivers” are referred as lost spaces. This paper aims to explore the urban interstices and investigate its possible usage. Site observation and photographic recordings of a case study were employed. The site characteristics were recorded in which findings suggested that the interstitial spaces have the potential to be planned and designed to cater adjacent community needs and usage.

scholarly journals The spaces for farmers in the city: A case study comparison of Direct Selling Alternative Food Networks in Toronto, Canada and Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Erin Maureen Pratley ◽  
Belinda Dodson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Scale Space ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
Global North ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
The City

<p>The current focus of Alternative Food Network (AFN) literature in the global North overlooks the reality of Southern AFNs and the potential contributions from studying Southern case studies.  In this research, we used interviews and observation to determine how the differing valuations of ‘local’ food and farmers in two case study locations, one in the global North (Toronto, Canada) and one in the global South (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), affected the physical, economic, and political spaces in the city for farmers participating in the AFNs. The geographical concepts of scale, space and place are central to understanding Alternative Food Networks (AFNs).  Drawing on work by Cook and Crang (1996) on ‘geographical knowledges’, we examined how farmers and consumers reinforced and constructed different narratives of ‘local’ food, which was valued by affluent consumers in Toronto but not by affluent consumers in Belo Horizonte. In Toronto, farmers operated in physical spaces that put them in contact with affluent consumers, and they were able to take advantage of both at market and off market economic spaces. In Belo Horizonte, farmers were relegated to marginal physical spaces, and had limited economic and political power. There were broader social justice implications related to whether the AFN operated mainly within affluent or marginal spaces. These case studies demonstrate that the scale, space and place are actively constructed, and certain constructions privilege some actors over others in the AFN and within the city. </p>

scholarly journals Similarities in Pentecostal and traditional African culture: a positive potential in a context of urbanization and modernization

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Ingram
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
The City

This article reflects the findings of a study that was conducted by NOVA (a research organization for the alleviation of poverty) for CDE (the Centre of Development and Enterprise) in 2004 with regard to the potential contribution of Pentecostalism to the socio-economical well-being of people who  are effected by the forces of modernization and urbanisation in South Africa. The case study was conducted among Pentecostal congregations in Witbank with special focus on congregations who serve people who have recently moved from the rural areas to Witbank. We made the interesting discovery that Pentecostal congregations do not serve as a new spiritual and social home for these new-comers by accident, but because their are underlying cultural similarities between Pentecostalism and Traditional African Culture. These similarities pertain to cosmology, social structure, personhood, morality and the value of esthetical experience. Because of these similarities Pentecostal communities create a context in which people who move from the rural areas to the city may feel at home and in which they are protected from the strange and confusing environment that is the city.

scholarly journals Roots, Tendrils, Sprouts and Shoots: A Case Study of Parkallen’s Community Garden, a permaculture project

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene Wurfel
Keyword(s):  
Community Gardens ◽  
Growing Season ◽  
First Year ◽  
Community Garden ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
Apple Trees ◽  
The City

The first growing season of Edmonton’s Parkallen Community Garden began in Spring 2012. We transformed an unused strip of lawn bordering our hockey rink into a loamy, thriving “edible food forest” of corn, beans, squash, kale, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, apple trees, and mammoth sunflowers. It is unlike most community gardens in that individual plots are not tended by individual gardeners; rather, the PCG is tended communally, by the community. The garden is open and accessible to the community, always, and all are welcome there, from the toddler whose only contribution is to chomp on a snowpea and water a dandelion, to the senior who wants to plant a tree in his community that he knows will outlive him. Hundreds of Parkallen residents have planted something, admired something, or munched on something there. In its first year Parkallen’s garden won The City of Edmonton’s top community gardening award from Communities in Bloom. This article is a case study of the Parkallen Community Garden. Through the lenses and observations of the author, it details how Parkallen’s permaculture design came, literally, to fruition and how permaculture has been interpreted and how it informs our garden and our gardening community.

scholarly journals Exploring the Urban Interstitial Spaces and its Potential Usage at DUKE Highway

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (13) ◽  
pp. 48-59
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ikhwan Nasir Mohamed Anuar ◽  
Raziah Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The City ◽  
Open Access Article

The development of the urban highway in and around the city has created vast quantities of left over spaces that seldom integrated into formal planning and design. Vague on purpose, the interstitial spaces formed from these concrete “rivers” are referred as lost spaces. This paper aims to explore the urban interstices and investigate its possible usage. Site observation and photographic recordings of a case study were employed. The site characteristics were recorded in which findings suggested that the interstitial spaces have the potential to be planned and designed to cater adjacent community needs and usage.Keywords: Elevated Highways; Interstitial Spaces; Lost Spaces; Possible Usage eISSN 2398-4279 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i13.161

scholarly journals The Work of Community Gardens: Reclaiming Place for Community in the City

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cumbers ◽  
Deirdre Shaw ◽  
John Crossan ◽  
Robert McMaster
Keyword(s):  
Community Gardens ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Working Community ◽  
The City ◽  
Academic Debate

The growth of community gardens has become the source of much academic debate regarding their role in community empowerment in the contemporary city. In this article, we focus upon the work being done in community gardens, using gardening in Glasgow as a case study. We argue that while community gardening cannot be divorced from more regressive underlying economic and social processes accompanying neoliberal austerity policies, it does provide space for important forms of work that address social needs and advance community empowerment. In developing this argument we use recent geographical scholarship concerning the generative role of place in bringing together individuals and communities in new collective forms of working. Community gardens are places that facilitate the recovery of individual agency, construction of new forms of knowledge and participation, and renewal of reflexive and proactive communities that provide broader lessons for building more progressive forms of work in cities.

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