Future Scenarios of Allotment Gardens in the context of increasing urban densification and urban open space policies
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Project type
angewandte Forschung
Project start
01.02.2014
Project end
31.07.2016
Project status
abgeschlossen
Project contact
Project manager
Contributors
Description
Abstract
Allotment gardens have been scarcely addressed by planning actors. This has recently changed due to the reorganisation of cities as places to live, work, and invest. The corresponding urban growth has led to urban densification and discussions of economically low-value utilisation of urban space. Concurrently, because of new urban life-styles other forms of urban gardening and leisure interests have arisen and questions concerning the future of allotment gardens have been embedded in considerations of the suitable supply of open space. Hence, approaches to allotment gardens and its conditions for transformation have become a central question of urban development policy. The research project addressed this question by analysing discourses on spatial policies in the context of social change and its implications for allotment gardens and other forms of urban gardening. Planning practices, such as urban and social planning, was analysed in Swiss metropolitan areas to develop future scenarios in densely-developed areas. The research project was part of the COST Action TU1201 «Urban Allotment Gardens in European Cities - Future, Challenges and Lessons Learned» (20122016) and contributed to the international knowledge transfer through conference presentations and publications.
Created during FHNW affiliation
Strategic action fields FHNW
School
Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Institute
Institut Sozialplanung, Organisationaler Wandel und Stadtentwicklung
Financed by
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI
Project partner
TUD COST Action TU1201
Contracting authority
SAP reference
S256-0061
Keywords
Allotment gardens
open space policy
qualitative analysis
urban densification
urban gardening
open space policy
qualitative analysis
urban densification
urban gardening
Subject (DDC)
300 - Sozialwissenschaften