Research & reports

Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.

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• When Modern Was Green: Life and Work of Landscape Architect Leberecht Migge

  2010

  Haney D. H. · Routledge · Germany

  The first book to fully document Migge's life and work, presenting him as a central figure across garden reform, urban planning, the Siedlungen housing movement, and organic architecture and planning, with extensive archival illustrations.

  Organic cycleCommunityWelfare
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• Allotment gardening and health: a comparative survey among allotment gardeners and their neighbors without an allotment

  2010

  Van den Berg A. E., Van Winsum-Westra M., De Vries S., Van Dillen S. M. E. · Environmental Health · Netherlands

  Comparative survey of Dutch allotment gardeners and non-gardening neighbors finding gardeners, especially older adults, scored better on health, wellbeing, physical activity, and social contacts, evidencing welfare benefits of shared urban gardening.

  HealthWelfareCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-74

• Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Kyiv (Ukraine): "Crisis Induced Strategy" versus Recreational Resource

  2008

  Zoia Komirenko, D.M. Hoermann, Komirenko, Z., Hoermann, D.M. · AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · Ukraine (Kyiv)

  This study surveyed 240 Kyiv households with urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) in 2005 using a standardized questionnaire. Data collected covered production, inputs, sales, and the importance of plots for self-sufficiency, recreation, and leisure. Cluster analysis identified four groups of UPA users, revealing that the importance of UPA shifts from livelihood necessity to recreational resource, or combines both, depending on the plot type.

  Peri-urban agricultureEconomicsCommunityWelfare
  Read source →DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.43553

• A Pledge Unredeemed: The Housing Crisis in Weimar Germany

  1970

  Silverman D. P. · Central European History, Vol. 3, No. 1–2, pp. 112–139 · Germany

  Examines the Weimar constitution's pledge of adequate housing (Article 155) and how chronic shortages and postwar upheaval left it unrealized, providing the institutional backdrop to settlement and housing policy.

  PolicyWelfareEconomics
  Read source →DOI: 10.1017/S0008938900015168