Governing urban gardens for resilient cities: Examining the ‘Garden City Initiative’ in Taipei

Hou, Jeffrey

doi:10.1177/0042098018778671

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“…The actors and contours of the greenspace debates reported in the articles are also broadly consistent with issues reported in extant empirical research into open and public space Taipei (e.g. Yang & Chang, 2018; Hou, 2019).…”

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confidence: 77%

Environmental justice in urban greening for subtropical Asian cities: the view from Taipei

Mabon

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Whilst an extensive body of literature exists on the environmental justice implications of urban greening in North America, Europe and to an extent Australasia, there are fewer analogous studies for tropical zone Asian city contexts. Given increasing global interest in the potential for urban greenspace to contribute to resilience in the face of environmental change and the higher vulnerability of Asian cities to environmental shocks, this is a notable gap. In response, this paper evaluates the contours of environmental justice debates within urban greenspace planning for one subtropical Asian city—Taipei. Through analysis of newspaper reporting on urban greenspace planning within Taipei, the potential and limitations of greenspace planning in contributing to equitably delivering benefits from urban greenspace towards resilience are assessed. Findings suggest that claims to environmental injustice in greenspace debates within Taipei follow broadly similar lines to controversies in Europe and North America. Nevertheless, the need for specific knowledge to understand the different ecosystem services provided by tropical zone ecosystems, and the potential for conflicts over greenspace versus development to be heightened in dense Asian city settings, are highlighted as potential areas where environmental justice debates in an Asian urban greening context may differ from Western cities.

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confidence: 77%

Environmental justice in urban greening for subtropical Asian cities: the view from Taipei

Mabon

2020

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…Research on community gardens is timely because community gardening is a growing trend in a number of countries including Australia, Singapore, Scotland, Italy, Taiwan, the USA and Canada (Australian Community Gardens Network, 2014;Celata & Coletti, 2017;Cumbers et al, 2017;Hou, 2018;Walker, 2015). The number of community gardens can be difficult to determine as many are informal and not registered (Mintz & McManus, 2014).…”

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Community gardens as third places

Dolley

2020

Geographical Research

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Community gardens play an important role in building urban resilience through improving food security and by increasing neighbourhood social capital. As community gardens become more popular in many countries, understanding what motivates people to join them and stay involved is, therefore, worth researching. This paper explores the key motivations of community gardeners using data from interviews conducted with people involved in a range of community gardens on the east coast of Australia (including Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney) as well as two locations in Denmark (Copenhagen and Odense). Our analysis synthesised three main categories of motivation which are broadly described as "individual", "community" and "gardening". Individual motivations included: a retirement activity; educating one's own children about growing and eating good food; access to organic produce; alternative to supermarket food; and personal learning, enjoyment and satisfaction. Community motivations included: civic action; a way to meet people when new to the neighbourhood; growing food for charities; teaching children to interact with the community; and community-based social activity. Gardening motivations included: being outdoors; enjoying nature; access to earth; and growing food plants. While community gardening is often cited as a sustainable activity, the environment only emerged once as a key focus in relation to organic food production. Interestingly, there was still evidence of sustainable practices such as community composting and pesticide-free growing across all sites. The range of motivations show that the gardens go some way towards improving the quality of life in urban environments through providing intergenerational social interactions which are enjoyable, increasing local social capital and inadvertently improving local food security and sustainability.

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“…Regarding the organisation of community gardens, publications are often about planning processes (e.g. Lawson 2004;Rosol 2006;Hou 2018), design (e.g. Hou et al 2009) and political conditions (e.g.…”

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Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

Göttl

Penker

2020

International Journal of the Commons

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Groups of urban gardeners collectively grow vegetables, fruits and flowers in an increasing number of community gardens all over the world. Despite a growing body of literature on community gardens, there is a particular gap for a transcontinental bigger N-study on the organisation of community gardening, which we want to fill with a comparative document analysis of 51 urban community gardens in six anglophone and German-speaking countries. Specifically, we want to understand how community gardens are organised as spaces for longterm collective action. We systematically collected and analysed documents such as membership rules, handouts to new members, formal statutes, or blog entries. A cluster analysis helped to identify three types of community garden organisations, which vary in terms of organisational form, membership and exclusion rules, individual versus collective cultivation of the garden area, and the degree of regulation, fees, and waiting lists. Our findings show that there is no single blueprint for a long-term community garden organisation, but that self-organisation or nested forms of organisation and more or less open social boundaries result in distinct places of collective gardening. Comparing organisational types across geographical contexts, the European gardens analysed showed bigger organisational diversity, more open social boundaries and more collectively used areas compared to North American gardens.

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Governing urban gardens for resilient cities: Examining the ‘Garden City Initiative’ in Taipei

Cited by 39 publications

References 35 publications

Environmental justice in urban greening for subtropical Asian cities: the view from Taipei

Environmental justice in urban greening for subtropical Asian cities: the view from Taipei

Community gardens as third places

Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

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