Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe

Foreword

Maluo Weirich, General Secretary of the Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux

Preface

David Crouch

Introduction

Simon Bell

1. A History of Urban Gardens in Europe

Nazila Keshavarz and Simon Bell

Part 1: Urban Allotment Gardens in the European Political, Planning and Legal Sphere

2. The Idea of Allotment Gardens and the Role of Spatial and Urban Planning

Matthias Drilling, Renata Giedych, Lidia Ponizy

3. Grassroots Gardening Movements: Towards Cooperative Forms of Green Urban Development?

Byron Ioannou, Nerea Moran, Martin Sondermann, Chiara Certoma and Michael Hardman

4. Political-Economic Urban Restructuring: Urban Allotment Gardens in the Entrepreneurial City

Efrat Eizenberg, Simone Tappert, Nicola Thomas and Andis Zilans

Part 2: The Ecology of Urban Allotment Gardens

5. Ecosystem Services from Urban Gardens

Andrew S. Hursthouse, Teresa E. Leitao, Annette Voigt, Avigail Heller, Beatrice Bechet and Paulo Brito da Luz

6. Environmental Pressures on and the Status of Urban Allotments

Andrew S. Hursthouse and Teresa E. Leitao

7. Lessons Learned: Indicators and Good Practice for an Environmentally Friendly Urban Garden

Annette Voigt, Teresa E. Leitao, Andrew S. Hursthouse, Ari Jokinen, Avigail Heller, Monika Latkowska, Paulo Brito da Luz, Yvonne Christ, Beatrice Bechet, Mart Kuelvik and Johannes Langemeyer

Part 3: Spatial Design Aspects of Urban Allotment Gardens

8. The Position of Urban Allotment Gardens within the Urban Fabric

Sandra Costa, Runrid Fox-Kaemper, Russell Good and Ivana Sentic

9. Emergent Approaches to Urban Gardening

Silvio Caputo, Eva Schwab and Kostas Tsiambaos

10. Allotment Gardens as a Challenge for an Urban Designer

Antoine Zammit and Ina Suklje-Erjavec

Part 4: The Social Sphere of Urban Allotment Gardens

11. Urban Allotment Garden: A Case for Place-Making

Susan Noori and Mary Benson

12. Motivations behind Urban Gardening: "Here I Feel Alive"

Laura Calvet-Mir, Hug March, Helena Nordh, Jeanne Pourias and Barbora Cakovska

13. Urban Allotment Gardens Built for and by Means of Trust

Tim Delshammar, Maria Partalidou and Rhys Evans

Concluding Remarks

Runrid Fox-Kaemper