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

  2019

  Barbara Maćkiewicz, Raúl Puente Asuero, Antonio Garrido Almonacid · Quaestiones Geographicae · Spain

  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.

  Limited or null effectUrban–rural linkageClimate changeEconomicsCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.2478/quageo-2019-0020