Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

Wesener, Andreas; Fox-Kämper, Runrid; Sondermann, Martin; Münderlein, Daniel

doi:10.3390/su12020657

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Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens

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School of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Lincoln University, 7647 Lincoln, New Zealand

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Spatial Planning and Urban Design, ILS-Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, 44135 Dortmund, Germany

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Research Department I “Society and Culture”, Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), 30179 Hanover, Germany

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Institute for Landscape Planning and Landscape Architecture, University of Kassel, 34117 Kassel, Germany

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Sustainability 2020, 12(2), 657; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020657

Submission received: 9 December 2019 / Revised: 12 January 2020 / Accepted: 14 January 2020 / Published: 16 January 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of Urban Agriculture)

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The paper examines factors that support or obstruct the development of urban community garden projects. It combines a systematic scholarly literature review with empirical research from case studies located in New Zealand and Germany. The findings are discussed against the backdrop of placemaking processes: urban community gardens are valuable platforms to observe space-to-place transformations. Following a social-constructionist approach, literature-informed enablers and barriers for the development of urban community gardens are analysed against perceived notions informed by local interviewees with regard to their biophysical and technical, socio-cultural and economic, and political and administrative dimensions. These dimensions are incorporated into a systematic and comprehensive category system. This approach helps observe how the essential biophysical-material base of the projects is overlaid with socio-cultural factors and shaped by governmental or administrative regulations. Perceptual differences become evident and are discussed through the lens of different actors.

Keywords: community gardens; enablers; barriers; placemaking; socio-cultural phenomenon; perception gaps

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Wesener, A.; Fox-Kämper, R.; Sondermann, M.; Münderlein, D. Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens. Sustainability 2020, 12, 657. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020657

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Wesener A, Fox-Kämper R, Sondermann M, Münderlein D. Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens. Sustainability. 2020; 12(2):657. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020657

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Wesener, Andreas, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Martin Sondermann, and Daniel Münderlein. 2020. "Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens" Sustainability 12, no. 2: 657. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020657

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Wesener, A., Fox-Kämper, R., Sondermann, M., & Münderlein, D. (2020). Placemaking in Action: Factors That Support or Obstruct the Development of Urban Community Gardens. Sustainability, 12(2), 657. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020657

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