Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan

Branduini, Paola; Perrin, Coline; Nougarèdes, Brigitte; Colli, Elena

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“…We find that Italian scholars have analyzed the heritage value of rural landscape in Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and other countries. 28 It is worth mentioning that the "rural landscape" in Italian approaches could be understood as a synthesis, including agricultural activities, ecological environment, cultural knowledge, transportation, infrastructure, as well as the local community. 29 Italian researcher Lionella Scazzosi and her team have recognized rural landscape as heritage.…”

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Identifying Urban Agriculture as Heritage: Traditional Urban Grape Gardens in the Ancient City of Xuanhua, China

Zhang

Timpe

Lohrberg

2022

Journal of Urban History

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Urban agricultural heritage is an essential subject when investigating urban history. The preservation of it contributes to inheriting farming traditions, supporting local food, and reinforcing the cities’ cultural identity. To emphasize the significance and urgency of preserving urban agricultural heritage, this article first describes the concept of urban agricultural heritage from historical, ecological, social, and economic dimensions. We then choose the traditional urban grape garden in the Ancient City of Xuanhua as a case study. According to a new method we have developed, we provide a comprehensive description of the existing issues in the grape garden and the external factors that impact the study area. The results show that the traditional farming technique has been inherited; the urban fabric of courtyards containing grape funnels has not changed; the study area still lacks social concerns; and a part of households should optimize their business models.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Identifying Urban Agriculture as Heritage: Traditional Urban Grape Gardens in the Ancient City of Xuanhua, China

Zhang

Timpe

Lohrberg

2022

Journal of Urban History

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“…Over the past decade, the evolution of these practices in Milan has been analysed from environmental, social and cultural perspectives, and relevant areas have been mapped and investigated [28][29][30]. The convergence of many socioeconomic and environmental challenges, along with organised citizen groups interested in the potential of these areas, makes Milan an ideal case study for the experiment.…”

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Developing a Participatory Process for Soil Fertility: A Case Study in an Urban Area of Italy

Criscuolo,

Bordogna,

Barbara

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Sustainability

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Approaches that are transdisciplinary and participatory can help to address complex socio-ecological issues by integrating multiple disciplinary perspectives while taking into account the different needs and experiences of community members and other stakeholders. Despite this promise, such approaches are rarely applied within the scientific community, as researchers and public actors often lack the training, practice and reference cases required to handle the working relationships and translations of terminology, ideas and values across multiple bodies of knowledge. A case study described in this manuscript depicts a group of researchers, artists and citizens consciously engaged in the construction of a transdisciplinary process as part of a 40-day ‘citizen science’ experiment focussed on assessing soil fertility in the urban area of Milan, Italy. The group drew from recognised scientific approaches, applied agronomic methodologies, artistic practices and technological tools, integrating them into a hybrid process of collective and participatory inquiry. As a quantitative outcome of the experiment, a dataset of bio-chemical parameters was generated, which was enriched by agronomic interpretations but also by artistic and reflective materials. Importantly, the process developed transdisciplinary and participatory skills, as it created a potentially replicable procedure of engagement, analysis and presentation for use in other citizen science settings. This article presents the context, the multiple objectives of the research and the applied approach and its timeline. Described in detail are the process of designing and conducting the experiment by involving an extended research community—including both junior and senior researchers—in progressive steps. Quantitative and qualitative results are provided. The findings are meant to contribute case material and methods to inform the advancement of transdisciplinary research approaches within the scientific community as well as examples of ways to transcend the boundaries of science to include artists and community stakeholders. The aspiration is to inform and inspire concrete application of transdisciplinary and participatory methods in concert to address complex socio-environmental challenges.

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“…Urban agricultural landscapes, intra or peri urban, were formed by the need of food production (especially vegetables) and building materials for the city over time (Scazzosi, 2020). Until early XX century, the food supply to the Maggiore Hospital's patients were assured by Morimondo land's farmsteads; likewise building materials such as bricks, poles and beams were provided by Fallavecchia's furnace and Morimondo's woods, transported along the Bereguardo, then Grande Canal, then Navigli's Circle until the small lake behind the Duomo, close to the hospital (Branduini et al, 2019 (Fig. 7.1).…”

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The Agricultural Heritage: A Climate Change Answer for the Metropolis

Branduini

2021

Landscape Series

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At a rst glance the relationship between agricultural heritage and climate change could sound excessive. However, this association is embedded in urban agricultural landscape since centuries. Unequivocal scienti c evidence shows that unprecedented concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), driven by human activities such as burning of fossil fuels and deforestation, are contributing to climate changes including warming of the oceans and atmosphere, sea level rise and diminished snow and ice. The impacts of these changes are already damaging infrastructure, eco-systems, and social systems -including cultural heritage -that provide essential bene ts and quality of life to communities. Excessive and insensitive development re ects the abandonment of sustainable patterns of land use, consumption and production, developed over centuries if not millennia of slow adaptation between communities and their environment (ICOMOS, 2019).We will rst explain the historical connection between countryside and the city that shaped agricultural landscapes; then, we will move to clarify the citizen's relationship to the present agricultural tangible and intangible heritage; nally, we will demonstrate how agricultural heritage can provide suggestions for the contemporary city climate problems. The city of Milan will supply suitable examples.

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Cultural Heritage Preservation and Resilience in Urban Agriculture Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Case Study in Milan

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Identifying Urban Agriculture as Heritage: Traditional Urban Grape Gardens in the Ancient City of Xuanhua, China

Identifying Urban Agriculture as Heritage: Traditional Urban Grape Gardens in the Ancient City of Xuanhua, China

Developing a Participatory Process for Soil Fertility: A Case Study in an Urban Area of Italy

The Agricultural Heritage: A Climate Change Answer for the Metropolis

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