Landscape urbanism and informal space-making: insights from a guerrilla gardening case in Montreal, Canada

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A study tracing the inception and development of an unauthorized community garden (guerrilla garden) that emerged from a re-appropriated composting site in a municipal park in Montreal, Canada. It identifies the main reasons and mechanisms that allowed the garden to persist in a high-profile location for a period of time, and examines the garden and its effects on surrounding space in relation to landscape urbanism and its pursuit of a new urban development paradigm.