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Database research record2022·Australia

Building community (gardens) on university campuses: masterplanning green-infrastructure for a post-COVID moment

Rachael Walshe, Lisa Law

Landscape Research

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This study explored how university masterplans in Australian universities express the benefits of campus community gardens as green community spaces and how they might better aid universities in achieving strategic missions, using a multiple case-study methodology. By comparing dominant themes in community garden literature with the visions of campus masterplans, the research aimed to understand how community gardens might be better positioned as tools for place and community building. The results provided a finer-grained understanding of green infrastructure in campus master planning for a post-COVID-19 moment.