Hiding in plain view: Vacancy and prospect in Paris’ Petite Ceinture

Foster, Jennifer

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2013.09.002

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“…nature strips), for potential solutions (Campo, 2013;Jonas, 2007;Jorgensen & Keenan, 2012;Kremer, Hamstead, & McPhearson, 2013;Rupprecht & Byrne 2014a;Schneekloth, 2007). In a recent special issue on vacant urban land in the journal Cities, researchers have discussed the socio-cultural and ecological opportunities of the abandoned or left-over spaces, including the Petite Ceinture railway circuit in Paris (Foster, 2014), community gardens and vacant lands in the USA (Drake & Lawson, 2014), and opportunities to use private property in North Denver for public purposes (Langegger, 2013).…”

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‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

Rupprecht

Byrne

Ueda

et al. 2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

184

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Urban parks and gardens may be failing to meet the diverse "nature needs" of a growing global urban population. Informal urban greenspace (IGS) such as vacant lots, street or railway verges and riverbanks may provide space for unstructured recreation and nature contact. Yet we know little about residents' relationship with IGS outside of Europe and North America, what factors influence IGS use and evaluation, or what role geographic and cultural context play. Our paper combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine how residents in Brisbane, Australia (n=123) and Sapporo, Japan (n=163) perceive, evaluate and use IGS. Using statistical methods (e.g. correlation analysis) we analyzed what factors influence how respondents interact with IGS, including the amount of formal greenspace within 500m of survey locations using a GIS buffer analysis. Results were tested for differences and similarities between the cities. We found that respondents knew of IGS in their neighborhood (>80%), appreciated and used it (>30%), but more respondents in Brisbane used and appreciated IGS. The influence of demographic factors and local formal greenspace area was limited, but respondents' attitude towards urban nature was correlated with IGS evaluation. Littering was perceived as IGS' most common problem (90% of respondents), but was reported by <20% of IGS users. Geographic (e.g., IGS type prevalence) and cultural (e.g., human-nature relationship) contexts represented potential influence factors. We argue that the liminal nature of IGS (e.g., liability) management poses a challenge traditional greenspace planning. To address this problem, further research should explore participatory management approaches. Research highlights: •! Over 80% of respondents knew of informal greenspace in their neighborhood •! 52% of respondents in Brisbane and 31% Sapporo used IGS for recreation •! Reasons for use: proximity, diverse flora/fauna, no use restrictions or crowding •! Influence of demographic factors on IGS use and evaluation was limited •! Cultural and geographic context may explain different IGS evaluation and use

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‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

Rupprecht

Byrne

Ueda

et al. 2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

184

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“…Noisy highway margins, the sprawling lawns of far-flung corporate office parks, and contaminated industrial lands might be suited to native plants and habitat, fungal remediation, shade trees, and flood-abating wetlands. Some areas may be best abandoned altogether, and protected and valued as evolving open spaces for nature, unplanned and sporadic human uses, and the full range of passive environmental services naturally provided by green space (Foster 2014).…”

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From vacant land to urban fallows: a permacultural approach to wasted land in cities and suburbs

Korsunsky

2019

Journal of Political Ecology

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While vacant land in cities has long been considered a sign of decline, a growing literature now suggests that such land can serve valuable social and ecological functions. In this article, I argue that such approaches advocated to date, while beneficial, operate within a New Urbanist framework that is essentially concerned with filling in vacant land with new 'green' projects. Unfortunately, such approaches are limited by a conceptualization of the city that treats inner city vacant lots as paradigmatic and makes invisible the systematic creation of functionally vacant land through zoning and building practices in low-density residential areas. Inspired by degrowth scholarship, I suggest that permaculture may provide the basis for an alternative approach based in the concept of fallowing more suited to the full range of vacant land present in American cities and suburbs. I explore the implications of such an approach through the practice of two permaculture-inspired intentional communities in the Pacific Northwest. RésuméBien que les terrains vacants dans les villes aient longtemps été considérés comme un signe de déclin, des études scientifiques suggèrent que ces terrains peuvent remplir des fonctions sociales et écologiques précieuses. Dans cet article, je soutiens que les approches préconisées à ce jour, bien que bénéfiques, s'inscrivent dans un nouveau cadre urbaniste (New Urbanist framework), qui consiste essentiellement à combler les terrains vacants par de nouveaux projets «verts». Malheureusement, ces approches sont limitées par une conceptualisation de la ville qui traite les terrains vacants du centre-ville comme un paradigme et ignore la création systématique de terrains vacants au moyen de pratiques de zonage et de construction dans des zones résidentielles à faible densité. Inspiré par la recherche sur la décroissance, je suggère que la permaculture pourrait servir de base à une approche alternative basée sur le concept de jachère plus adapté à la gamme complète de terrains vacants présents dans les villes et les banlieues américaines. J'explore les implications d'une telle approche à travers la pratique de deux communautés intentionnelles inspirées par la permaculture dans le nord-ouest du Pacifique. Mots-clés: terrain vacant, permaculture, nouvel urbanisme, communautés intentionnelles, commun, décroissance ResumenAunque las tierras vacantes en la ciudad han sido consideradas una indicación de declino, una nueva literatura sugiere que estas tierras puedan servir funciones sociales y ecológicas valorables. En este artículo, propongo que, a pesar de los beneficios de estas estrategias, operan dentro de una perspectiva de Nuevo Urbanismo que está enfocada en llenar tierras vacantes con nuevos proyectos 'verdes'. Desafortunadamente, están limitadas por una conceptualización de la ciudad que trata con los centros de las ciudades como un paradigma, y hace invisible la creación sistemática de tierras efectivamente vacantes por medio de zonación y prácticas de construcción en áreas residenciales de densida...

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“…L'incompréhension du long temps de projet peut expliquer cette vision négative, voire cette angoisse vis-à-vis des délaissés (Andres, 2006). A l'inverse, pour certains habitants, ce devenir incertain peut être un point positif, des idées de « liberté » évoquées confirment la demande sociale d'espaces de respiration, de « rien » dans la ville (Foster, 2014).…”

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Usages et représentations des délaissés urbains, supports de services écosystémiques culturels en ville

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Hiding in plain view: Vacancy and prospect in Paris’ Petite Ceinture

Cited by 49 publications

References 13 publications

‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

From vacant land to urban fallows: a permacultural approach to wasted land in cities and suburbs

Usages et représentations des délaissés urbains, supports de services écosystémiques culturels en ville

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