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Urban community gardens as green infrastructure in densifying cities: contributions, constraints, and possibilities

Brenda B. Lin, Shalene Jha, Heidi Liere, Stacy M. Philpott

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

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Drawing on a long-term, multidisciplinary research program conducted since 2013 on urban community gardens in the California Central Coast, this paper uses that program as a lens to explore how community gardens may function as a form of green infrastructure within increasingly compact urban development, while grounded in a specific regional context.