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Urban Farming and Transition Towns Initiatives: Practices and Paths of Urban Regeneration

Maurizio Bergamaschi, Marco Castrignanò, Alessandra Landi

Journal of Nutritional Ecology and Food Research

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This paper examines community vegetable gardens and Transition Towns initiatives. It finds that these experiences contribute to sustainable urban development, improve environmental health and quality of life, reshape urban image and morphology, and enhance cities as forms of social cohesion.