Urban Farm DB
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Database research record2025·Global

Landscape, urban gardening, and aesthetics

Mateusz Salwa

Urban Farm DB summary

This chapter discusses contemporary urban gardening practices as an activity interpretable as a model for how people should design and manage their landscapes. Gardening is presented as driven by an "aesthetics of care," arguing for a new paradigm in landscape aesthetics that should no longer be associated with aesthetic appreciation. Instead, it should be conceived as related to human engagement in and with the landscape.