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Database research record2019·Spain

Urban Agriculture as the Path to Sustainable City Development. Insights into Allotment Gardens in Andalusia

Barbara Maćkiewicz, Raúl Puente Asuero, Antonio Garrido Almonacid

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This study investigated how urban allotment gardens in Baeza, Andalusia, Spain, affect the city’s sustainable development. The research showed that allotment gardens in Baeza endorsed all three pillars of sustainable city development: ecological, economic, and social. However, it was found that developing broader community relations on the city scale, reviving the declining local grocery market, and disseminating environmental initiatives that allotment gardens could promote and facilitate were missing.