Research & reports

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

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• L'agriculture périurbaine : paradigme et paradoxes d'une péri-agriculture. Illustration en région méditerranéenne

  2001

  J.J. Tolron · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Europe

  This article examines peri-urban agriculture, which is subject to land constraints imposed by nearby cities. Two case studies in the Mediterranean region illustrate that adaptations to the peri-urban context trigger radical changes in agricultural systems' functioning rationale, leading to sometimes paradoxical operations. The study emphasizes the diversifying effect on systems and the challenges linked to land management.

  Governance failurePeri-urban agriculturePolicyEconomicsUrban–rural linkage
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• City and Country: That Awkward Embrace

  1991

  John M. Merriman · Oxford University Press eBooks · France

  This chapter emphasizes the “awkward embrace” between city and country in the faubourg and the persistence of an urban agricultural population. It also considers how the troubled relationship between state and city affected the urban periphery and provides an overview of industry's role in faubourg development. To understand the urban periphery in France during the first half of the nineteenth century, it explores the state-city relationship (reflected in town walls), the persistence of rural life at the edge of and within cities, and industry's place in the emergence of the nineteenth-century faubourg.

  Urban–rural linkagePolicyCommunity
  Read source →DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195064384.003.0002

• Chapter 7: Urban Gardens

  1991

  David R. Coffin · Princeton University Press eBooks · Italy (Rome)

  This chapter, authored by David R. Coffin, explores urban gardens in Papal Rome. It contrasts these secular urban horticultural retreats with the cloistered gardens of monks.

  CommunityUrban–rural linkage
  Read source →DOI: 10.37862/aaeportal.00055.010

• Allotment gardens in the Lublin downtown in the spatial and urban planning context – origins and issues concerning their preservation

  1970

  Natalia Przesmycka, Rafał Strojny · Teka Komisji Architektury Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobrazowych · Poland (Lublin)

  This article examines allotment gardens in downtown Lublin, Poland, from a historical, architectural, and landscape perspective, focusing on the oldest garden, "Nasza Zdobycz nad Bystrzycą." It identifies that city-center allotment gardens are at risk from commercial development and discusses the increasing alienation of owners and progressing devastation of these areas. The study also attempts to explain these issues and suggests design applications for revitalization.

  Governance failureCommunityPolicyUrban–rural linkage
  Read source →DOI: 10.35784/teka.1777