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Urban Agriculture, Cui Prodest? Seattle’s Picardo Farm as Seen by Its Gardeners
The urban green network provides various ecosystem services that are crucial assets in determining cities’ sustainability. Urban agriculture is a type of urban green space that is experiencing a growing interest among Institutions and researchers. This paper analyses its benefits, as perceived by the urban gardeners, using an open-questions survey. The case study is a community garden in Seattle, called Picardo farm. The results show how the citizens involved in community gardens are aware of a variety of values linked with the urban agriculture, that provides outdoor activities, food production, connection with nature, wellbeing, education, and positive social interactions. A significative strength of the community gardens regards the ability to build site-specific cohesive communities, guaranteeing constant stewardship of the place where they are located. Finally, the results show that urban agriculture is a complementary form of urban green space provision with distinctive values of respect to other urban green spaces.
Urban Agriculture, Cui Prodest? Seattle’s Picardo Farm as Seen by Its Gardeners
The urban green network provides various ecosystem services that are crucial assets in determining cities’ sustainability. Urban agriculture is a type of urban green space that is experiencing a growing interest among Institutions and researchers. This paper analyses its benefits, as perceived by the urban gardeners, using an open-questions survey. The case study is a community garden in Seattle, called Picardo farm. The results show how the citizens involved in community gardens are aware of a variety of values linked with the urban agriculture, that provides outdoor activities, food production, connection with nature, wellbeing, education, and positive social interactions. A significative strength of the community gardens regards the ability to build site-specific cohesive communities, guaranteeing constant stewardship of the place where they are located. Finally, the results show that urban agriculture is a complementary form of urban green space provision with distinctive values of respect to other urban green spaces.
Urban Agriculture, Cui Prodest? Seattle’s Picardo Farm as Seen by Its Gardeners
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Coppola, Antonio (editor) / Di Renzo, Giovanni Carlo (editor) / Altieri, Giuseppe (editor) / D'Antonio, Paola (editor) / Menconi, M. E. (author) / Borghi, P. (author) / Grohmann, D. (author)
International Mid-Term Conference of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering ; 2019 ; Matera, Italy
Innovative Biosystems Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry and Food Production ; Chapter: 18 ; 163-168
2020-03-20
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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