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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Participatory Design and Self-Building in Shared Urban Open Spaces: Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City

Participatory Design and Self-Building in Shared Urban Open Spaces: Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City

Mees, Carolin

Hardcover

Series: Urban Agriculture

AgricultureGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319755137
ISBN13: 9783319755137
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 20 2018
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form in New York City's low-come neighborhoods like the South Bronx since the 1970s. These gardens have continued to be part of the urban landscape until today, despite conflicting land use interests, changing residents groups and contradictory city planning. Both community gardens and self-built structures are created in a participatory design and self-built effort by urban residents and are an expression of the individual gardeners' preferences, their cultural background and the decisions made by the managing residents' group in regards to the needs of their neighborhood. Ultimately community gardens with self-built structures are an expression of the people's will to commonly use this land for open and enclosed structures next to their homes in the city and need to be included in future urban planning.

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