“Community in Bloom”: local participation of community gardens in urban Singapore

Tan, Leon; Neo, Harvey

doi:10.1080/13549830902904060

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“…Moreover, when participation is being promoted through the social network of gardeners – as (Van der Wilk ) found in his study on the Cremer community garden in the Netherlands – the selectivity of these networks may even strengthen the homogeneity of the group of gardeners by involving people with roughly the same characteristics. Based on a case study in Singapore, Tan and Neo () add that, for people not knowing any of the gardeners, the community garden may transform from a public, inclusive space into a private, exclusionary one. They point to an ‘ideological barrier’ when ‘residents have imperfect knowledge of the operations and rationale behind the community gardens’ (Tan & Neo , p. 536).…”

Section: Community Gardens: Inclusive or Exclusive?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ownership and Membership: Practices and Experiences of Neighbourhood Residents in the Wijsgeren Community Garden in Amsterdam

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Maliepaard

2018

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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City governments worldwide have embraced urban agriculture, including community gardening, for the multiple societal benefits which they promise. Many academic studies have also emphasised and celebrated the benefits of community gardening but the debate surrounding it increasingly takes a more critical stance by also paying attention to the societal drawbacks. This paper aims to further enrich this more critical debate by analysing processes of social inclusion and social exclusion in and around the community garden in the Wijsgeren neighbourhood of Amsterdam. By looking at the practices and experiences of both gardeners and non‐gardeners, processes of inclusion and exclusion are unravelled in terms of ownership and membership of the community garden. In so doing, exclusionary barriers based on non‐ownership and non‐membership are pinpointed in particular.

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Section: Community Gardens: Inclusive or Exclusive?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ownership and Membership: Practices and Experiences of Neighbourhood Residents in the Wijsgeren Community Garden in Amsterdam

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Maliepaard

2018

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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“…Urban community gardening refers to the growing of vegetables, herbs, spices,°owers and even fruits in space limited environments. These gardens can be found in public and private housing estates, schools, prisons, as well as other organisations, such as hospitals and welfare homes in Singapore 11 and many other cities. 12,13 It promotes the production of vegetables,°owers and fruits and enhances the living environment for urban dwellers.…”

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Farming of Vegetables in Space-Limited Environments

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Vegetables that contain most of the essential components of human nutrition are perishable and cannot be stocked. To secure vegetable supply in space limited cities such as Singapore, there are di®erent farming methods to produce vegetables. These include low-cost urban community gardening and innovative rooftop and vertical farms integrated with various technologies such as hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics. However, for large-scale vegetable production in spacelimited Singapore, we need to develop farming systems that not only increase productivity manyfold per unit of land but also produce all types of vegetable, all year-round for today and the future. This could be resolved through integrated vertical aeroponic farming system. Manipulation of root-zone (RZ) environments such as cooling the RZ, modifying mineral nutrients and introducing elevated RZ CO 2 using aeroponics can further boost crop productivity beyond what can be achieved from more e±cient use of land area. We could also adopt energy saving light emitting diodes (LEDs) for vertical aeroponic farming system to promote uniform growth and to improve the utilisation of limited space via shortening the growth cycle, thus improving vegetable production in a cost-e®ective manner.

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“…However, literature increasing suggests that the concept is expanding to places like India (The Water Act of 1974), Singapore (Tan and Neo [32]), Taipei (Bauwens [5]); demonstrating varying levels of success. The opportunities to integrate and address many challenges, whether local or global, however, may be tackled one garden at a time.…”

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Urban community gardens: emerging models for sustainable health, democracy and water policy

Ward¹

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper provides a comparative analysis of community gardens as they expand the scope of purpose to address social, political and health needs of densely populated areas. Water policies in several large urban areas are investigated to assess for their impact on edible gardens/food production, water sources/use and the potential for identifying community gardens as a bridge to stabilizing access to increasing sustainable and scale-able food production that can be reinterpreted in a variety of cultures and climates. Particularly, the reintroduction of small scale, community-based agriculture is examined as a model for increasing community participation as well as managing health, wellness and water.

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“Community in Bloom”: local participation of community gardens in urban Singapore

Cited by 56 publications

References 20 publications

Ownership and Membership: Practices and Experiences of Neighbourhood Residents in the Wijsgeren Community Garden in Amsterdam

Ownership and Membership: Practices and Experiences of Neighbourhood Residents in the Wijsgeren Community Garden in Amsterdam

Farming of Vegetables in Space-Limited Environments

Urban community gardens: emerging models for sustainable health, democracy and water policy

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